Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 17:04:11 -0700 From: Steve Francis <steve@expertcity.com> To: Jason Stone <freebsd-performance@dfmm.org> Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SWAP size Message-ID: <3EB0647B.3040506@expertcity.com> In-Reply-To: <20030430162823.I4074-100000@walter> References: <20030430162823.I4074-100000@walter>
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Actually, from man dumpon:
The size of the specified dump device must be at least 64 KB greater than
the size of physical memory.
We just got bit by this - 1G of ram, and we had 1 G of swap.
Just a bit shy...
Jason Stone wrote:
>Also remember that crash-dumps get written to swap, so if you want to be
>able to take a dump in the event of a panic, you need at least as much
>swap as physical ram.
>
>Since crash-dumps are usually a good idea (or at least the ability to take
>a dump if your system starts acting strangely), I think you should never
>have less than 1x ram on a production system.
>
>
> -Jason
>
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