Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 16:53:20 -0600 From: "Ray Seals" <rayseals@midwestis.com> To: "Freebsd-Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Swap Partition dilemma Message-ID: <002b01be48b5$8124b6e0$8301000a@rseals.midwestis.com>
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This may have been covered before so I'm wearing my thick pants.... As a rule of thumb, I've heard you should make your swap partition twice the size of memory in the machine. Since most of us use the entire hard drive, this can cause a problem if we up the memory in a machine. We can't increase the size of the partition unless we add another hard drive. I have also heard that you can get really bad performance if you make a swap way to big. My thought was this. If you have a motherboard that can support 128meg of RAM and I only have 64meg. Could I make a swap big enough to support it (128meg) (only if it doesn't adversely effect the machine) or should I just leave the needed disk space unused on the drive so I can expand it later? Ray ---------------------------------------- Midwest Information Systems http://www.midwestis.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Ray Seals Systems Consultant rayseals@midwestis.com Direct Dial: 314.930.0479 Office: 314.423.8377 ext. 113 Fax: 314.423.3944 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- "Providing clear vision to the future" ---------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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