From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 1 18:00:58 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 9206637B401 for ; Thu, 1 May 2003 18:00:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net (pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFEE943FAF for ; Thu, 1 May 2003 18:00:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doveclaw@earthlink.net) Received: from user-1120ir3.dsl.mindspring.com ([66.32.75.99] helo=[192.168.0.100]) by pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 19BOv3-0003m2-00 for freebsd-performance@freebsd.org; Thu, 01 May 2003 18:00:57 -0700 From: Doveclaw To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1051822879.5947.3.camel@amdbox.horizon2.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4 Date: 01 May 2003 21:01:19 +0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: freebsd-performance Digest, Vol 3, Issue 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 01:00:58 -0000 I'm not really sure why the idea of having so much swap is taken to be so absurd or even expensive. I would think, if you could afford 2-4gb of ram you could afford buying a few extra gigs or an extra hd for swap. I'm not saying I would do this myself, it just seems like theres been a whole lot of strange reactions to the practice. 4GB of some kind of DDR SDRAM costs somewhere around a grand.. 8GB of hard drive space is nothing in comparison. On Fri, 2003-05-02 at 00:30, User DERO wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-performance-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"