Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 17:51:30 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Doveclaw <doveclaw@earthlink.net> Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-performance Digest, Vol 3, Issue Message-ID: <3EB1C112.DB934186@mindspring.com> References: <1051822879.5947.3.camel@amdbox.horizon2.net>
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Doveclaw wrote: > 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. Old People. It's the same reason that people think 8% of a 120GB hard drive is "a lot of space" and refuse to set their free reserve on their FS's high enough to avoid fragmentation. -- Terry
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