Date: 01 May 2003 21:01:19 +0000 From: Doveclaw <doveclaw@earthlink.net> To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-performance Digest, Vol 3, Issue Message-ID: <1051822879.5947.3.camel@amdbox.horizon2.net>
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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"
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