From owner-freebsd-security Wed Aug 11 11:39:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from trooper.velocet.ca (trooper.velocet.net [209.167.225.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA178155A8 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 11:39:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dgilbert@trooper.velocet.ca) Received: (from dgilbert@localhost) by trooper.velocet.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA66504; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 14:39:21 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dgilbert) From: David Gilbert MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14257.50009.162402.381699@trooper.velocet.ca> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 14:39:21 -0400 (EDT) To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: John Sconiers , "Matthew D. Fuller" , Matthew Dillon , "Childers, Richard" , "'H. Eckert '" , "'freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG '" Subject: Re: 4 Swap partitions limit (was Re: RE: Little question (offtopic)) In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.71 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >>>>> "Dag-Erling" == Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: Dag-Erling> The only cases in which I've ever actually used swap on a Dag-Erling> box with 128 MB RAM or more are: Since people are posting on this topic, I generally configure a workstation for myself (these days) with 1Gig of swap. My current workstation runs for a numder of dumb X-terminals as well as my own display. I have 256M of memory. There are 355 processes running on the machine... and... Device 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type /dev/da0s1b 1048576 296128 752192 28% Interleaved /dev/wd1s1b 1048576 291128 757192 28% Interleaved Total 2096640 587256 1509384 28% One curious aspect of FreeBSD that I havn't explained to my own satisfaction is why it appears to consume more swap than linux. I see a lot of linux installations running on 32 or 64M of swap, but I'm loathe to set up BSD boxes with less than 256M of swap. Not that I have scientific evidence of this, but it has been a general feeling of a number of people I know. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | |http://www.velocet.net/~dgilbert | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message