Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 20:20:24 +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: <20010719202024.A89693@pitr.tuxinternet.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.20010719175503.01b10100@207.227.119.2>; from jeff-ml@mountin.net on Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 06:03:56PM -0500 References: <NFBBKAEAALGGGFKINBLAKEOICBAA.peter@sysadmin-inc.com> <4.3.2.20010719175503.01b10100@207.227.119.2>
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--vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 06:03:56PM -0500, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: > At 03:54 PM 7/19/01 -0400, Peter Brezny wrote: > >I'm going to be increasing the amount of ram in one of my system from 12= 8 to > >256 mb. > > > >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). >=20 > Swap should be a bit larger than the memory. In light of the other advic= e=20 > seen here, one has to wonder if they ever had to debug a kernel=20 > panic. Just because one does not use any in during normal operation and = in=20 > light of how cheap drive space is, it's better to have it and avoid hassl= e=20 > should need it. I figure having a swap large enough to handle the max=20 > memory on a system is easy enough. YMMV several reasons: 1. most of the time I don't have a gig or so of hard drive space to give up on my box. 2. this is on a server, if you have a kernal panic you=20 arn't going to care about de-bugging it as much as getting the server back up as fast as possible, I would run a=20 restore before I tried to debug a kernal panic 3. it is rare that a server is going to kernal panic if you have a development box then yes you are going to need the room. but not on a server 4. Sysadmins run servers, not programers... 99% of sysadmins don't know how to debug a kernal panic.=20 --=20 ************************************************* hugme hugme@hugme.org http://www.hugme.org http://www.atlantacon.org PGP Public key: http://www.hugme.org/mykey.pgp --vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL 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 iEYEARECAAYFAjtXQQgACgkQCEkxz3stqbTyWgCdGm8V44Qn9Ww07cXJjgNDQxsv 9t8An0jQwTnrlwp7fa4FKCNaIpNKdOdm =IAU+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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