Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:47:12 -0700 (PDT) From: snott <skye@f4.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Maximum swap size? Message-ID: <18205925.post@talk.nabble.com> In-Reply-To: <486960E8.5010108@cwis.biz> References: <18204938.post@talk.nabble.com> <486960E8.5010108@cwis.biz>
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Trust me, I really do want 250GB (or more) of swap. I'm using swap as a backing store for an HTTP reverse proxy for very large cache sets. Its more efficient to just use the vm layer for LRU object management than to create a huge mmap'd file with file buf caching. Skye Ryan Coleman wrote: > > snott wrote: >> Is there a maximum swap size limitation? I'm using a 64-bit arch and >> only >> seem to get about 32GB of usable swap out of a 250GB disk (all of >> /dev/ad6) >> >> Thanks, Skye > > My first question is, why are you partitioning more than 2x your RAM? I > highly doubt you have 16GB of RAM. > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Maximum-swap-size--tp18204938p18205925.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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