From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 22 16:44:09 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 22D68CAA for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 16:44:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nm6-vm3.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com (nm6-vm3.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com [212.82.96.119]) (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 3BEC72B03 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 16:44:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.82.98.125] by nm6.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 22 Jul 2014 16:42:00 -0000 Received: from [46.228.39.93] by tm18.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 22 Jul 2014 16:42:00 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp130.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 22 Jul 2014 16:42:00 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=rocketmail.com; s=s1024; t=1406047320; bh=RrsBKSGjce3A9tYyHZ212XeGtDxY6Nzz8/yUX/7j/6w=; h=X-Yahoo-Newman-Id:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-SMTP:Message-ID:Subject:From:To:Cc:Date:In-Reply-To:References:Content-Type:X-Mailer:Mime-Version:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=jfcpAIg6KNNbQAvDx98y6uIkCMQt8bTZ7PlVcbZ9wPXSaQUaU9xeQMuBVvvJgAfXhuhMkfOR7X1Ne99D31f/1jqHL51vkvzMPjqvd1H3sCruj+zx9EDlfVRFWO+1aEMhXUf+7WKpw4JvmHn2/XDBn7NZ5bCq3r4VDXuTg6kKXv8= X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 482770.74670.bm@smtp130.mail.ir2.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: KjJ8XVMVM1kLmYCUvIa3qS2y3jxXA8pT0odSHKRDHPtMsYi m8XzQQ5LLVNp7_w299uNsy2i3NEwmEGuqO.jAAYkH9tNAo.x80CeXFWojMVP 4a_yVOmdK2nU12KVcEWNT.Gn3fPXp9pPXTiSgUfLcZ6sIXaiyy9QcZSi7P9r z8Uk4wFyQYlYoZSEy9kyniwI.nP18lTKW50EbWNPB0Mx.RymblpQCIPhgAz5 4lph3127Gl6F5HIb7aVmZ7ltcNS57h6T9jde8GMX1pmxmLx.9QwEI5x70rEE 5aaMdDJq6GRit3HdoM2Q3zQBOBVjp_fpvUYlx5q5KK9tzIVVGKYuhYBSFFLr EfZHXqEDaRJTZ6cQckSN3tGkeqZoausSWOTLexpF2n47w4GMGR04KH5a3xoP .VvHD3MnloiBBk76MKPFeNYvX3NUrXqvuWKjMjKR1XNApYVs5LR8GROjByC5 qoRYKVtIf3d5oHR1Xn3h1.5bUYh1RRn.PpCvnAmtwol74z.mdZ5gmOP7x7Xh 29cMJhjEq_5wprVguYR3Nxo2kT7bBBQ-- X-Yahoo-SMTP: BeMCPs2swBABTJ3kAeEiC_hE0mz8jRexLddJfD8pI2j32fOacjBmXg-- Message-ID: <1406047319.4434.1.camel@rocketmail.com> Subject: Re: [Bulk] How much swap space for a 32 GB RAM system? From: Ralf Mardorf To: Anton Sayetsky Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 18:41:59 +0200 In-Reply-To: References: <53CE8BB8.7030303@qeng-ho.org> <1406046615.3925.2.camel@rocketmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.12.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Questions 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 16:44:09 -0000 On Tue, 2014-07-22 at 19:35 +0300, Anton Sayetsky wrote: > 2014-07-22 19:30 GMT+03:00 Ralf Mardorf : > > 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? > FreeBSD does NOT support S4 state. My apologies. I checked this and found a PC-BSD thread where somebody claimed that he suspends to swap, but I didn't check if that claim is correct ;).