From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 10 20:17:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA09389 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 20:17:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA09009 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 20:16:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dyson@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA07995; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 23:16:23 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dyson) Message-Id: <199802110416.XAA07995@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: Trivial Question on Virtual Memory In-Reply-To: from Byoung-Kee Yi at "Feb 10, 98 10:32:56 pm" To: kee@wam.umd.edu (Byoung-Kee Yi) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 23:16:23 -0500 (EST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Byoung-Kee Yi said: > Hi there - > > I'm a little bit confused about the size of virual memory. > Is it (RAM size + swap size) or max(RAM, swap)? > That is, does just adding more RAMs increase the total > virtual memory size, or should I also increase the swap > partition? > Your total available virtual mem is essentially the size of your swap space only. However, you can often get by with less. It is best to plan ahead, and allocate enough swap. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message