From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 1 17:29:26 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 408C937B401 for ; Thu, 1 May 2003 17:29:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bluhayz.homeunix.org (ip68-106-103-50.nv.nv.cox.net [68.106.103.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60D2E43F3F for ; Thu, 1 May 2003 17:29:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dero@bluhayz.homeunix.org) Received: from bluhayz.homeunix.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) h420UjiD000365 for ; Thu, 1 May 2003 20:30:45 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dero@bluhayz.homeunix.org) Received: from localhost (dero@localhost)h420UjQX000362 for ; Thu, 1 May 2003 20:30:45 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 20:30:44 -0400 (EDT) From: User DERO To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20030501190036.1111A37B401@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: <20030501202719.W356@bluhayz.homeunix.org> References: <20030501190036.1111A37B401@hub.freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: freebsd-performance Digest, Vol 3, Issue 1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 00:29:26 -0000 Ok, a whole lot of talk about swapping and all, but any of you who have seen a new computer magazine knows that even common desktop PCs are capable of a couple GB of RAM. SO, if I am building a high powered desktop, or a medium sized server. With between 2-4GB of RAM, should I be partitioning my precious server space with a 4-10GB partition of SWAP? Since it is a large load LAN server, with about 2GB of RAM, should I have a good 5GB SWAP partition. And another question, since buying a couple gigs of RAM upfront isn't an option, but adding on later is, can FreeBSD handle a multiple GB SwapFile? prost, agent dero