From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 2 1: 1:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web10706.mail.yahoo.com (web10706.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.130.214]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A359737B405 for ; Sun, 2 Sep 2001 01:01:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20010902080153.13169.qmail@web10706.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [203.200.52.16] by web10706.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 02 Sep 2001 01:01:53 PDT Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 01:01:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Manas Subject: Re: Amount of swap space? To: questions@freeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <87r8toq50e.fsf@yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --- Jeremy wrote: > I'm very new to FreeBSD, so if some of my > terminology is not correct, please > forgive me. I'm coming from a Linux world. Anywho, > I just tried installing > 4.3 on my box, but I had a bit of a problem that I > couldn't find answered in > the Handbook. I know that the amount of swap space > is supposed to be 2-3x > the amount of RAM you have, but is this fixed? Though i have installed 4.3FreeBSD-stable with 2XRAM hard disk space as swap space but i remember mike meyer saying in one mail that the minimum amount of swap space should be 1XRAM + 64k. I think you can give it a try. thanks -manas __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger http://im.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message