Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 15:22:27 -0500 (CDT) From: De la Cruz Lugo Eric <eric@iteso.mx> To: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Swap Space Philosophy Message-ID: <997474947.3b7442836d4f7@iteso.mx> In-Reply-To: <E15VH60-00068C-00@dc.cis.okstate.edu> References: <E15VH60-00068C-00@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
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Martin: maybe in this case the swap should be at least 1 GB, all this in order (in some cases) to allow a core dump of the memory to disk. of course this is JUST in some cases and only if you really want to know what happened after a system crash (very unlikelly). in this special case I suggest a swap partition of at least 512 MB (just in case). otherwise you can change your swap size later when you get a new drive (say 20 or 30 GB). have a nice day! Eric De La Cruz Lugo. Mérida, Yucatán, México the Maya-Land. Quoting Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu>: > A FreeBSD-powered server I recently set up has 1 gigabyte > of RAM and a 8-gigabyte hard disk. My understanding of swap > usage is that swapping is done when an application runs out of > RAM. Since this system will be running applications like domain > name service and dhcp service, I doubt that it will get close to > running out of RAM any time soon, if ever. I allocated a swap > space of 2 megabytes because fdisk requires Swap. > > This particular server will have a fairly light load, but > I am asking whether FreeBSD uses swap in any unusual way that I > haven't counted on. If I followed the usual rule of thumb, I > would have wasted about 12% of the disk space for an event that > probably won't happen. > > Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK > OSU Center for Computing and Information Services Data Communications > Group > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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