From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 22 16:45:02 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 66EE8E75 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 16:45:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from blue.qeng-ho.org (blue.qeng-ho.org [217.155.128.241]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B7C8F2B16 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 16:45:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org (8.14.7/8.14.5) with ESMTP id s6MGiwY4043018; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 17:44:59 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Message-ID: <53CE950A.5040205@qeng-ho.org> Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 17:44:58 +0100 From: Arthur Chance User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ralf Mardorf , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Bulk] How much swap space for a 32 GB RAM system? References: <53CE8BB8.7030303@qeng-ho.org> <1406046615.3925.2.camel@rocketmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1406046615.3925.2.camel@rocketmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed 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 16:45:02 -0000 On 22/07/2014 17:30, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > 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? No, but I suffer seasonal affective disorder and wish I could. :-) Being serious, no I have no need to hibernate the machine. I didn't even know you could with FBSD.