From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 3 18:32:58 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78F6E16A4CF for ; Tue, 3 May 2005 18:32:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pyro.cenergynetworks.com (pyro.cenergynetworks.com [196.30.191.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9998143D95 for ; Tue, 3 May 2005 18:32:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from savage@savage.za.org) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=pyro.cenergynetworks.com) by pyro.cenergynetworks.com with smtp (Exim 4.50) id 1DT2AN-000F2q-qy for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 03 May 2005 20:30:43 +0200 Received: from wblv-146-195-133.telkomadsl.co.za ([165.146.195.133] helo=netphobia) by pyro.cenergynetworks.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.50) id 1DT2AM-000F2m-rO for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 03 May 2005 20:30:42 +0200 Message-ID: <000601c5500e$85b4f3c0$0a01a8c0@ops.cenergynetworks.com> From: "Chris Knipe" To: Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 20:32:54 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2527 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527 X-PMX-Version: 4.7.1.128075, Antispam-Engine: 2.0.3.0, Antispam-Data: 2005.3.10.17 Subject: swap space X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Chris Knipe List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 18:32:58 -0000 Hi, Simple question really... Can you ever have to much swap space? We're sitting with quite a nifty P4 System with 1GB Ram. We will more than likely add another 2 or 3GB in the month to come as our applications (mainly perl) are consuming vast amounts of memory and swap. We made the mistake however of just allocating 512MB swap as we did not know accurately at the time of installation what the resouce requires are going to be (especially not that it would be this high). Obviously reinstalling the entire OS / Applications is not really a option. We may want to install a dedicated 40GB just for swap... Would this be advisable, or will it actually slow the system down? And to what extend? We're running FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE. Thanks in advance. -- Chris. I love deadlines. I especially love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by..." - Douglas Adams, 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'