From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 22 16:33:12 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AC5F982A for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 16:33:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nm35-vm6.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com (nm35-vm6.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com [212.82.97.129]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CC24729F8 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 16:33:11 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=rocketmail.com; s=s1024; t=1406046616; bh=8H/L6JaoPSLnWb6fLpoq88wOI/9TQC5hdDryoSMgx7A=; h=Received:Received:Received:DKIM-Signature:X-Yahoo-Newman-Id:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-SMTP:Message-ID:Subject:From:To:Date:In-Reply-To:References:Content-Type:X-Mailer:Mime-Version:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=kPH/RPo0XXl7eR6YFDP5+EQJL0DASiCnhiRfxDb8R1HGvnSFrrpKicoZxlZXj0gSwMAJAosisceMmarD2wG8v5VXJ+0heyIRXGdXOjchRoa0mXlDzPkAzCV9ZaT1Gphz7PVF5R/k52OK/MEIvnZ+7M09/GSBGnc9YKsoVEcTjeA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=rocketmail.com; b=Tgo27d4mz5j7bWAzpYD/6bIKASfkEyABrmQyJcckq/VWSDr4Lv0JdpTwgTN3awFgr8D0IoAEfnUWU4m6Nru70tnthMAWFsxv6ePG9BHvzjlwi7GligzQ/m1ByAqec7u3aMUl27dJDWDchoGuiHg8LpsUttAmBNUZ5+pCp7gQ7uU=; Received: from [212.82.98.63] by nm35.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 22 Jul 2014 16:30:16 -0000 Received: from [46.228.39.103] by tm16.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 22 Jul 2014 16:30:16 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp140.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 22 Jul 2014 16:30:16 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=rocketmail.com; s=s1024; t=1406046616; bh=8H/L6JaoPSLnWb6fLpoq88wOI/9TQC5hdDryoSMgx7A=; h=X-Yahoo-Newman-Id:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-SMTP:Message-ID:Subject:From:To:Date:In-Reply-To:References:Content-Type:X-Mailer:Mime-Version:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=EwZQxO+2a8XqCmozm8QO0GRhGQzIXey0LYOCPL24DVY9/vLtdAQDaMAv7MF5rrefzG7vaCIWeOBa7/9DAGcVYM5i3eKzZmQ4QQjsUzSep/iCoBoYwSiY5YLUQb0QhRpWaPnkZQnA2VRtmiN00R1S03t0pQdm/Lg/nzDW5svHXW4= X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 133324.50404.bm@smtp140.mail.ir2.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: gcf0JfUVM1nDiyPYmqLAUr33of80krI.tHvPSCs5wZWH9qf Bsal3YARVRCFk5oR_SkFcg4TIBERsAKgmo6HIkYtd6G7cUSw4yIy2C.MWclB ZYTywLDQiCXu..gSbEidFoeBJ6eTV0hdNkEk6Ox0V1c8wVX1HoB2x3frGW4d l61xsylvD5hs6e3VFJGuEXOf0OfpZYJ3NEcJ8jHLVOpCFs_fan.gTvq.XQxB nmHVWHJNTeBhGqtzQnnSzo1tZTi9z10_SePlxFvraTtHErGdG9FWDVqjqK_Q qou0pHOsPJOhoUatB.ngPRZLjxb5YSwxRPttRdF.65.8tMaRVZJPClak5yZ0 PAcSe7pcZVvYU9jCCxwBhwP1lvUtCHfXREFhJk2PeZBwy7iJH0GMPYjgmdNX j.W3VJ5lZ1PlMbzh5Hc9hrnlRHUY_NIbyE9s8pubcTvYN.msVcAl.V74RGbt uS1QgncEdOjabdDnWAuNagI9aPXtmWGfkyXYXtTa5_GY9PRMfMIU0VBITiXv Pv3nGnnbzXQ1hAOP2lOGYH0apRzVl X-Yahoo-SMTP: BeMCPs2swBABTJ3kAeEiC_hE0mz8jRexLddJfD8pI2j32fOacjBmXg-- Message-ID: <1406046615.3925.2.camel@rocketmail.com> Subject: Re: [Bulk] How much swap space for a 32 GB RAM system? From: Ralf Mardorf To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 18:30:15 +0200 In-Reply-To: <53CE8BB8.7030303@qeng-ho.org> References: <53CE8BB8.7030303@qeng-ho.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.12.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 16:33:12 -0000 On Tue, 2014-07-22 at 17:05 +0100, Arthur Chance wrote: > I'm getting a new machine with 32 GB of memory. The old "twice physical > memory" sizing seems ridiculous, so how big should I make swap? Do I > even need swap with this much memory? Do you hibernate?