From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 23 11:55:07 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 DEE938D0 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2014 11:55:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from the-host.seacom.mu (ge-0.ln-01-jnb.za.seacomnet.com [41.87.104.245]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1F27D2213 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2014 11:55:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=the-host.localnet) by the-host.seacom.mu with esmtp (Exim 4.80.1) (envelope-from ) id 1X9sY7-0003Sp-Qq; Wed, 23 Jul 2014 11:09:23 +0200 From: Mark Tinka Reply-To: mark.tinka@seacom.mu Organization: SEACOM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, tyler@tysdomain.com Subject: Re: How much swap space for a 32 GB RAM system? Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 11:09:21 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.6 (Linux/2.6.37.6-24-desktop; KDE/4.6.0; i686; ; ) References: <53CE8BB8.7030303@qeng-ho.org> <53CE8F62.8090701@tysdomain.com> In-Reply-To: <53CE8F62.8090701@tysdomain.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3227683.qMCVUA0Cfc"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201407231109.21577.mark.tinka@seacom.mu> Cc: Arthur Chance 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: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 11:55:07 -0000 --nextPart3227683.qMCVUA0Cfc Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tuesday, July 22, 2014 06:20:50 PM Littlefield, Tyler=20 wrote: > That number was always weird and never made much sense. > What swap ultimately comes down to though is you, the > user. If you foresee needing more than 32 gb ram, feel > free to add more swap space. If you don't, maybe 8 gb or > so just to be on the safe side. If you really need 32 gb > swap space, I'd recommend just getting more ram, as that > will be much, much faster than thrashing. I've always kept swap at no more than 4GB, whether I have=20 256MB or 256GB of RAM :-). Of course, swap is very important when doing VM's, but=20 that's another issue entirely :-). Mark. --nextPart3227683.qMCVUA0Cfc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJTz3vBAAoJEGcZuYTeKm+GWbAP/iZaow6vzMkKyQwnmI3nLF7v xw4tcbFR+AgF6Mu0rV9IgcCX5FDZI7g6Jos4KiFYpVpbqA3TBIRLco7mxz9Wv5vn nat1ll4wCdMjTyGbxbqw6Wh8gdg+O+TI0ZPUAldu7t9myFeCWjD/NyynfTITwGOf bTVcP6HDREjCchXr+7Xi7GCnWS2lLqU5OiSTWVpK0DPxEiuVP0klh+0OyO1579lb FxVxmAcVTJpJd647CkiL6HQPa9al7zG1wbLlCU4yewW22SrZMlD3WgpWPomPGleh m2rCLH4D9ELVtABJETNpkKCnFoHHt1yjvjCZ10zNw61eeumpTO8tliot9JJV8JId YIHwj6Yg2Bn49zvNqghxhr2MYynxQNZuwLOhCV+67OKY65fAYBJfLy5mvnhsXJ8K IUzA8oB2TIO2yn4yfwqz8UJmPNL1LLeUcCKR0COvKo1XXXLa9kLg7Du0GCR2KRws PxpsHxn1C5NLM1hS2G/swT49vRGzwziUgHYtgmMK7Iv7RKh4Aachrt9MeYA3X/1I GPDsI6xoTl1Y4yX/zcAPjBFMek0HAtaxiJBn29Gr45JsRctHIigZB4Ft+gzgyVWX DSlznvdmt+1Y1B8eHoOIqVzRHVpITnZAViuJuoou2ffFVDv0Hmch2Q5elTVZNHw+ OMENZao5TgHAlnk9OO1z =FhbH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3227683.qMCVUA0Cfc--