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Date:      Wed, 8 Nov 2006 11:08:43 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Grant Peel <gpeel@thenetnow.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Real Memory and Swap Space.
Message-ID:  <20061108170842.GE38327@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <0b6801c7033e$f980ec20$6501a8c0@GRANT>
References:  <0b6801c7033e$f980ec20$6501a8c0@GRANT>

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In the last episode (Nov 08), Grant Peel said:
> I have two older servers that started with 512 MB of RAM. 
> 
> I want to install two GIGs of RAM.
> 
> My swap space is set at 1 GB.
> 
> Whan I upgrade to two GB RAM, do I have to increase the swap slice?

Probably not, but it depends on your workload.  If you never ran out of
swap with 512MB, you probably won't with 2GB either.

You'll also want to enable mini crashdumps (add "debug.minidump=1" to
/etc/sysctl.conf), since if the system panics, it won't be able to dump
2GB of RAM into 1GB of swap :)

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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