From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 3 19:43:01 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 2633B16A4CF for ; Tue, 3 May 2005 19:43:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 835F643D8D for ; Tue, 3 May 2005 19:43:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fborghesi@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 18so48456nzp for ; Tue, 03 May 2005 12:42:51 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=qr6du8jlJc47xRcNhPtW8W0pzxCxtQfKH6cbSTGi9RxDL6nUs5YbPRppcmmNLJMi7V9/PItWk+dnMCZCZHMIaX555eOCGkvlExzXQM6W6j3nzRUJ9XDWNdza4OGV1pAS77m765QrkAa0zfIkoBarMjo+CZEa8oSOxQGMmuZbHXk= Received: by 10.36.33.6 with SMTP id g6mr753961nzg; Tue, 03 May 2005 12:42:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.105.10 with HTTP; Tue, 3 May 2005 12:42:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 16:42:51 -0300 From: Franco Bruno Borghesi To: Chris Knipe In-Reply-To: <000601c5500e$85b4f3c0$0a01a8c0@ops.cenergynetworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 References: <000601c5500e$85b4f3c0$0a01a8c0@ops.cenergynetworks.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: swap space X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Franco Bruno Borghesi List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 19:43:01 -0000 Actually having a separated disk for swap should increase your performance. But my opinion is that if you really need *all* the 40 GB of swap when your= =20 system's ram is 3 GB, you won't see the difference: most of the data your= =20 system needs is swapped out! You could add a partition to your new disk (let's say 2 or 3 times the=20 amount of ram), and leave the rest unpartitioned. You could use that extra= =20 space later for nightly backups, emergencies, etc. without loosing your=20 performance gain. Hope it helps. PS: Is there a FreeBSD 5.4 stable version? 2005/5/3, Chris Knipe : >=20 > Hi, >=20 > Simple question really... Can you ever have to much swap space? >=20 > We're sitting with quite a nifty P4 System with 1GB Ram. We will more tha= n > likely add another 2 or 3GB in the month to come as our applications=20 > (mainly > perl) are consuming vast amounts of memory and swap. >=20 > We made the mistake however of just allocating 512MB swap as we did not= =20 > know > accurately at the time of installation what the resouce requires are goin= g > to be (especially not that it would be this high). >=20 > Obviously reinstalling the entire OS / Applications is not really a=20 > 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? >=20 > We're running FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE. >=20 > Thanks in advance. >=20 > -- > Chris. >=20 > I love deadlines. I especially love the whooshing sound they make as they > fly by..." - Douglas Adams, 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >