From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 3 20:12:15 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 1B1BE16A4CE for ; Tue, 3 May 2005 20:12:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cobalt.antimatter.net (cobalt.antimatter.net [69.55.224.239]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4B6443D54 for ; Tue, 3 May 2005 20:12:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from glenn@antimatter.net) Received: from glenn-mobile.antimatter.net (cpe-66-27-94-59.san.res.rr.com [66.27.94.59]) (authenticated bits=0)j43KC8jF000381 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Tue, 3 May 2005 13:12:09 -0700 Message-Id: <6.1.0.6.2.20050503130925.1c479500@cobalt.antimatter.net> X-Sender: lists@cobalt.antimatter.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.1.0.6 Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 13:11:25 -0700 To: Chris Knipe , From: Glenn Dawson In-Reply-To: <000601c5500e$85b4f3c0$0a01a8c0@ops.cenergynetworks.com> References: <000601c5500e$85b4f3c0$0a01a8c0@ops.cenergynetworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: Re: swap space X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 20:12:15 -0000 At 11:32 AM 5/3/2005, Chris Knipe wrote: >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? There are practical limits to how much swap you can or want to have on your system. Take a look at this for more info http://kerneltrap.org/node/323?PHPSESSID=9c6e97871e0d3a3632de7ccff346b0c6 -Glenn >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' >_______________________________________________ >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"