Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 20:30:44 -0400 (EDT) From: User DERO <dero@bluhayz.homeunix.org> To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-performance Digest, Vol 3, Issue 1 Message-ID: <20030501202719.W356@bluhayz.homeunix.org> In-Reply-To: <20030501190036.1111A37B401@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20030501190036.1111A37B401@hub.freebsd.org>
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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
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