Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 07:47:57 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Adriaan de Groot <adridg@cs.kun.nl> Cc: amd64 freebsd <freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Partitions Message-ID: <20031211154757.GC58813@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <200312111330.08052.adridg@cs.kun.nl> References: <3FD7F786.7010208@texoma.net> <200312111330.08052.adridg@cs.kun.nl>
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On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 01:30:08PM +0100, Adriaan de Groot wrote: > On Thursday 11 December 2003 05:50, Jimmie Houchin wrote: > > Do I really need a 4gb swap partition/slice? > > I have 4gb ram. > > 8 is suggested, no? Certainly if you've got a 220G drive, you can afford that? > The story is sort of this: the VM is optimized for the situation that there's > twice as much swap as memory. I'm not aware that was ever the case, and if it was in 4.3BSD, I don't think that is the case in 5-FreeBSD. Unless a vm hacker tells me otherwise, I think 1.1 times RAM is a sufficient rule with one has 4-8GB RAM and no other reason to believe on needs more swap. 1.1 times is the space for crashdumps, and the need for that has already been told.home | help
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