From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 16 16:35:42 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4895F16A418 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:35:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Albert.Shih@obspm.fr) Received: from mesiob.obspm.fr (mesiob.obspm.fr [145.238.2.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1A3413C457 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:35:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Albert.Shih@obspm.fr) Received: from localhost (pcjas.obspm.fr [145.238.184.233]) by mesiob.obspm.fr (8.13.4/8.13.4/SIO Observatoire de Paris) with ESMTP id m0GGZdl2031815; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:35:40 +0100 Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:35:39 +0100 From: Albert Shih To: Jerry McAllister Message-ID: <20080116163539.GU89314@pcjas.obspm.fr> References: <20080116150454.GP89314@pcjas.obspm.fr> <20080116161856.GD86844@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20080116161856.GD86844@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (mesiob.obspm.fr [145.238.2.2]); Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:35:40 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.92, clamav-milter version 0.92 on mesiob.obspm.fr X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How manu swap ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Albert.Shih@obspm.fr List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:35:42 -0000 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