Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 21:02:27 +0100 From: Paul Robinson <paul@akita.co.uk> To: Peter Brezny <peter@sysadmin-inc.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: increasing amount of ram, what to do about /swap? Message-ID: <20010719210227.C34395@jake.akitanet.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <NFBBKAEAALGGGFKINBLAKEOICBAA.peter@sysadmin-inc.com>; from peter@sysadmin-inc.com on Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 03:54:33PM -0400 References: <NFBBKAEAALGGGFKINBLAKEOICBAA.peter@sysadmin-inc.com>
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On Jul 19, Peter Brezny <peter@sysadmin-inc.com> wrote:
> What do I need to do to keep the system happy as far as the size of the swap
> partition?
>
> It's currently double the amount of ram (default on initial install).
To be honest, in my experience, FBSD hardly ever touches swap, and that is a
Good Thing(tm). The "double the size of RAM" is really a Linux rule of
thumb, and trust me, Linux uses swap all the time.
In all honesty, if you're going to be using more than a few Mb of swap, you
really should consider getting more memory, especially with the prices as
they are at the moment.
That's my take on it, anyway.
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