Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 02:26:36 +0100 From: Alex de Kruijff <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl> To: Charles Howse <chowse@charter.net> Cc: FBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: swap space on multiple drives Message-ID: <20031130012636.GC8823@dds.nl> In-Reply-To: <200311291415.38068.chowse@charter.net> References: <200311291415.38068.chowse@charter.net>
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On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 02:15:38PM -0600, Charles Howse wrote: > Hi, > After reading the following section of the Handbook, I'm still a little > confused. > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ > configtuning-initial.html#SWAP-DESIGN > > If I have 128MB ram, and 2 drives on seperate controllers, would I create swap > partitions of 256MB on each drive? No 256+256=512 so you would put half on each. > What if I have 1GB ram? It won't be swapping much anyway. Surely 2 swap > partitions of 2GB each won't hurt, but is that overkill? It not a rule more of a guide line. You can safly put less on it if you don't swap much. Dont go to low. You don't want to a situation where 100% is a posiblity. This could panic your system. -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/
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