Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 01:29:17 -0500 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@freebsd.org> To: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Cc: bsdcur@shadows.aeon.net (mika ruohotie), dyson@freebsd.org, dtc@scrooge.ee.swin.oz.au, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request to add this to FAQ re: swap space Message-ID: <1386.846743357@orion.webspan.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 29 Oct 1996 11:28:03 CST." <199610291728.LAA24544@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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Joe Greco wrote in message ID <199610291728.LAA24544@brasil.moneng.mei.com>: > You do not really want to swap on a news server. On my news servers I try > to go min 4x RAM but I have a fit if I see any substantial percentage being > used (I don't mind if daemons get swapped out). I have 220Mb of swap on our news box, with 256Mb of RAM .. if the machine swaps, it slows down in more than one way, since the disks are MEANT to be used for article/history I/O, NOT swapping. It actually gets to ~100Mb used at the minute, and I'm gonna try and get some more RAM for this box (although it normally runs at 30-40Mb in `cache' according to top, no matter what, even if it fills swap, which I think is wrong somehow) Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info
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