Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:35:39 +0100 From: Albert Shih <Albert.Shih@obspm.fr> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How manu swap ? Message-ID: <20080116163539.GU89314@pcjas.obspm.fr> In-Reply-To: <20080116161856.GD86844@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <20080116150454.GP89314@pcjas.obspm.fr> <20080116161856.GD86844@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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Le 16/01/2008 à 11:18:57-0500, Jerry McAllister a écrit > On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 04:04:54PM +0100, Albert Shih wrote: > > > Hi all > > > > I known it's classic question. > > > > Long time ago when I install a FreeBSD x86 32 bits when I have N Go of Ram > > the installer take 2xN Go for the swap partition. > > > > Now I just install two machine with FreeBSD amd64 version with 8Go of Ram > > and FreeBSD installer take 4 Go of swap. > > > > Is a bug in the installer or now FreeBSD don't need 2xRam of swap ? > > Hmmmm. I doubt that it is a "bug" per se. I wonder if there is > a maximum size for swap compiled in somewhere. Is your system set > up correctly to actually access all 8GB of ram? Yes... Mem: 8064K Active, 6076K Inact, 68M Wired, 8896K Buf, 7829M Free Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M Free and the second machine Mem: 12M Active, 561M Inact, 322M Wired, 12K Cache, 214M Buf, 15G Free Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M Free Regards. JAS -- Albert SHIH Observatoire de Paris Meudon SIO batiment 15 Heure local/Local time: Mer 16 jan 2008 17:34:40 CET
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