Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 16:38:25 +0000 From: Hug Me <hugme@hugme.org> To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: increasing amount of ram, what to do about /swap? Message-ID: <20010719163825.A88683@pitr.tuxinternet.com> 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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--UugvWAfsgieZRqgk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Ah the swap size rule. A long time a go on a planet far far away... oh wrong story...=20 it used to be computer memory was not only small but it was not very accuarate. along with the os. crashes were regular, you would get=20 problems with memory busses, all kinds of things well the double swap rule came into effect when your memory would crash it could dump it to swap. well to figure out what happened you still had to have usable memory. so your current memory would drop to swap=20 (theoryaticly that would be your first half) and then you would have to still have a functunioning computer (that would be the secound half) Today things are a lot different, memory is more stable and much much cheaper!! not only that it's much faster... I would say if you are using more than 64 meg of swap on ANY modern system you need to get more memory or there is somthing wrong. did you use up a lot of swap space on your computer before? On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 03:54:33PM -0400, Peter Brezny wrote: > I'm going to be increasing the amount of ram in one of my system from 128= to > 256 mb. >=20 > What do I need to do to keep the system happy as far as the size of the s= wap > partition? >=20 > It's currently double the amount of ram (default on initial install). >=20 > TIA >=20 > Peter Brezny > SysAdmin Services Inc. >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message --=20 ************************************************* hugme hugme@hugme.org http://www.hugme.org http://www.atlantacon.org PGP Public key: http://www.hugme.org/mykey.pgp --UugvWAfsgieZRqgk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.3 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjtXDQEACgkQCEkxz3stqbTV1wCgg7J5qZqhmDPXXlGUyLb1VlM0 CvYAnRm0s4xzp7CI1FDLkEhsOHi42pdT =gMGX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --UugvWAfsgieZRqgk-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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