From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 10 6:21:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF43137B400 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 06:21:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sabre.velocet.net (sabre.velocet.net [216.138.209.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0EBF43E31 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 06:21:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dgilbert@velocet.ca) Received: from canoe.velocet.net (canoe210.velocet.net [216.138.240.43]) by sabre.velocet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FBDC137F44; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 09:21:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: by canoe.velocet.net (Postfix, from userid 101) id EE2425678CC; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 09:21:31 -0400 (EDT) From: David Gilbert MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15660.13531.896765.587888@canoe.velocet.net> Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 09:21:31 -0400 To: "Brandon D. Valentine" Cc: Matthew Dillon , David Schultz , Terry Lambert , Erik Trulsson , Chuck Robey , FreeBSD Hackers List Subject: [hackers] Re: swap & huge mem systems In-Reply-To: <20020709023121.X11678-100000@dallben.homeportal.2wire.net> References: <200207090527.g695R23C049724@apollo.backplane.com> <20020709023121.X11678-100000@dallben.homeportal.2wire.net> X-Mailer: VM 7.04 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "Brandon" == Brandon D Valentine writes: Brandon> Allocating swap = physical RAM doesn't buy you any expansion Brandon> though. I always try to do at least twice physical RAM so Brandon> that if I ever double the RAM in my machine I'm still able to Brandon> catch crash dumps. It's not worth having to repartition the Brandon> drive to add more swap every time I add more RAM when a 120GB Brandon> 7.2k drive is ~$170. What's 2GB of swap on a 120GB disk or Brandon> even a 40GB disk for that matter? That's what old 6G disks are for. My current workstation (still on it's origional root disk) has way more then doubled it's RAM without a root transplant. At some point, when I was having problems, I realized I needed crash dumps... so I stuck in a 6G disk that is too slow for any other use. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message