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Date:      Tue, 15 May 2001 16:59:17 +0200
From:      Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de>
To:        Andrew Hesford <ajh3@usrlib.org>
Cc:        j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: expanding swap space?
Message-ID:  <3B014445.40505@i-clue.de>
References:  <20010515031705.A38994@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010515094026.A4496@core.usrlib.org>

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Andrew Hesford wrote:

> On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 03:17:05AM +0100, j mckitrick wrote:
>>
>>I just added 128 megs to my laptop.  I had 64 before, with a swap of 128.
>>There is no way to change my swap size without starting from scratch, is
>>there?
> 
> I don't know about you, but I get by with more than enough swap. I have
> 320M RAM and a 100M swap partition. I have never seen swap usage above,
> oh, 8M (conservatively). 


Utilizing less swap than RAM cripples the ability to write crash dumps 
when your server panics. If you're not interested in crash dumps, 
utilizing less swap than RAM is an option.

Just my EUR.02
-Christoph Sold


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