From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 15 7:58:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE7EB37B423 for ; Tue, 15 May 2001 07:58:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id RAA20799; Tue, 15 May 2001 17:05:00 +0200 Message-ID: <3B014445.40505@i-clue.de> Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 16:59:17 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Organization: i-clue GmbH, Waiblingen, Germany User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9) Gecko/20010505 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Hesford Cc: j mckitrick , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: expanding swap space? References: <20010515031705.A38994@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010515094026.A4496@core.usrlib.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message