From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 23 12:28:37 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 5AC52681 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2014 12:28:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sender1.zohomail.com (sender1.zohomail.com [74.201.84.155]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 435BB2547 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2014 12:28:36 +0000 (UTC) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=bsdjunk; d=bsdjunk.com; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:references:mime-version:content-type:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=Zhkwx/DRBJOk78TgozhDPE9x8ZNQDzeQtDGyoZlGYDAG3P3Pw8POtW5c+09JCyELQ/juSWV60olm coIVtWJ2qjz129cGPACETa+t7csoRPi84T6+4NMoth2fnVPnXOVTPi5BuKI5muh1K2xxF8JEOIQS 4f7prcSm1Dw2OiU+Jwo= Received: from bsdjunk.com (bsdjunk.com [199.48.135.150]) by mx.zohomail.com with SMTPS id 1406118515276862.851582305306; Wed, 23 Jul 2014 05:28:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 07:31:24 -0500 From: Chris To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How much swap space for a 32 GB RAM system? Message-ID: <20140723123123.GA36905@bsdjunk.com> References: <53CE8BB8.7030303@qeng-ho.org> <53CE8F62.8090701@tysdomain.com> <201407231109.21577.mark.tinka@seacom.mu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201407231109.21577.mark.tinka@seacom.mu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-ZohoMailClient: External X-Zoho-Virus-Status: 2 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 12:28:37 -0000 On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 11:09:21AM +0200, Mark Tinka wrote: > On Tuesday, July 22, 2014 06:20:50 PM Littlefield, Tyler > 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 > 256MB or 256GB of RAM :-). > > Of course, swap is very important when doing VM's, but > that's another issue entirely :-). > > Mark. Normally it's 2 times amount of ram in the system so in your case it would be a swap of 64G http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall-partitioning.html#configtuning-initial -- Washington, D.C: Wasting your money since 1810. FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE-p3 Mutt 1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Hostname: chris.bsdjunk.com.