Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 19:59:33 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Jon Dama <jd@ugcs.caltech.edu> Cc: polachok@narod.ru, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: out of swap space Message-ID: <20050707235933.GA19467@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0507071453280.19319@spew.ugcs.caltech.edu> References: <42CD9728.000003.16936@colgate.yandex.ru> <5BFCCFD5-15C5-400D-8CA1-CF5E2802A3DD@mac.com> <Pine.LNX.4.53.0507071453280.19319@spew.ugcs.caltech.edu>
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--YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 02:57:01PM -0700, Jon Dama wrote: > It is also it is worthwhile to remember that on i386 you can use > roughly >20GB of swap space. swap + ram need not sum to less than 4GB > common misunderstandings aside. >=20 > If your memory load warrants larger swap allocations, you should just bump > that number up. Better to add more RAM or reduce or optimize the workload - as soon as you load your machine enough that it begins heavily using swap your machine performance will fall in the toilet. Kris --YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCzcHkWry0BWjoQKURAnENAJ49LvC9/p8/AQV+m3XjZGyzIGpxTACguEXu nrJMnGb8z1/k7UmpzGSqQ7E= =rtjd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK--
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