From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 22 16:45:53 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 C77F5F10 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 16:45:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vc0-x229.google.com (mail-vc0-x229.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400c:c03::229]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8617D2B2C for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 16:45:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-vc0-f169.google.com with SMTP id hu12so15598426vcb.14 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 09:45:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=HcmRovb2oCIVDHVw3m6Gwh5xsW7iwxZT+Fug/ifEOjo=; b=onMxF+jYcO0FUfr97ThL4YaoEELnZYlB+555SO3cv5/r1FlDoiKPgT9l3wCZ0C+G1Z z12R+Xu+6I57kJDthKx9T8hWHr61XDzDisN8tgxzK2/OrWItjm/Ren6CK75zS69T62q3 90MryT/78IfcTYRgxFgZ0GArlI3r7JqDWYK/CTNfuQzunMvps+Q1z3FWlh6/qGl/5mJj feoMHPSwTGdj3W6SVH7e61Cn7tIw7zaFcwioE6qfi/tZHpmgyE/vw+eLDNhwv5gNHBsi zMTzpNwXXVK9knq+ZDvCM2Gt/l8xr0w24vWQeLot29p6X9SkVIP7WiRp3ITBlIzXMhYT uc6g== X-Received: by 10.53.1.231 with SMTP id bj7mr35242092vdd.49.1406047552579; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 09:45:52 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.58.113.7 with HTTP; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 09:45:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1406047319.4434.1.camel@rocketmail.com> References: <53CE8BB8.7030303@qeng-ho.org> <1406046615.3925.2.camel@rocketmail.com> <1406047319.4434.1.camel@rocketmail.com> From: Anton Sayetsky Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 19:45:32 +0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [Bulk] How much swap space for a 32 GB RAM system? To: Ralf Mardorf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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 16:45:53 -0000 2014-07-22 19:41 GMT+03:00 Ralf Mardorf : > 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 ;). > > https://wiki.freebsd.org/IdeasPage#Suspend_to_disk