Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 11:09:21 +0200 From: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, tyler@tysdomain.com Cc: Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> Subject: Re: How much swap space for a 32 GB RAM system? Message-ID: <201407231109.21577.mark.tinka@seacom.mu> In-Reply-To: <53CE8F62.8090701@tysdomain.com> References: <53CE8BB8.7030303@qeng-ho.org> <53CE8F62.8090701@tysdomain.com>
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--nextPart3227683.qMCVUA0Cfc Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tuesday, July 22, 2014 06:20:50 PM Littlefield, Tyler=20 wrote: > That number was always weird and never made much sense. > What swap ultimately comes down to though is you, the > user. If you foresee needing more than 32 gb ram, feel > free to add more swap space. If you don't, maybe 8 gb or > so just to be on the safe side. If you really need 32 gb > swap space, I'd recommend just getting more ram, as that > will be much, much faster than thrashing. I've always kept swap at no more than 4GB, whether I have=20 256MB or 256GB of RAM :-). Of course, swap is very important when doing VM's, but=20 that's another issue entirely :-). Mark. --nextPart3227683.qMCVUA0Cfc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJTz3vBAAoJEGcZuYTeKm+GWbAP/iZaow6vzMkKyQwnmI3nLF7v xw4tcbFR+AgF6Mu0rV9IgcCX5FDZI7g6Jos4KiFYpVpbqA3TBIRLco7mxz9Wv5vn nat1ll4wCdMjTyGbxbqw6Wh8gdg+O+TI0ZPUAldu7t9myFeCWjD/NyynfTITwGOf bTVcP6HDREjCchXr+7Xi7GCnWS2lLqU5OiSTWVpK0DPxEiuVP0klh+0OyO1579lb FxVxmAcVTJpJd647CkiL6HQPa9al7zG1wbLlCU4yewW22SrZMlD3WgpWPomPGleh m2rCLH4D9ELVtABJETNpkKCnFoHHt1yjvjCZ10zNw61eeumpTO8tliot9JJV8JId YIHwj6Yg2Bn49zvNqghxhr2MYynxQNZuwLOhCV+67OKY65fAYBJfLy5mvnhsXJ8K IUzA8oB2TIO2yn4yfwqz8UJmPNL1LLeUcCKR0COvKo1XXXLa9kLg7Du0GCR2KRws PxpsHxn1C5NLM1hS2G/swT49vRGzwziUgHYtgmMK7Iv7RKh4Aachrt9MeYA3X/1I GPDsI6xoTl1Y4yX/zcAPjBFMek0HAtaxiJBn29Gr45JsRctHIigZB4Ft+gzgyVWX DSlznvdmt+1Y1B8eHoOIqVzRHVpITnZAViuJuoou2ffFVDv0Hmch2Q5elTVZNHw+ OMENZao5TgHAlnk9OO1z =FhbH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3227683.qMCVUA0Cfc--
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