Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 21:06:01 +0000 From: "Jesus A. Mora Marin" <amora@zoom.es> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Memory and swap size. Message-ID: <199710131430.QAA15481@silvester.zoom.es>
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Hi! I have recently increased the RAM of my system from 16 to 32MB. The only swap partition in my FreeBSD slice is 48 MB. It's a generally accepted rule of thumb that the swap size should be at least twice the memory size, so this is not my case now. The questions are: a) What are the possible negative consequences of not fulfilling this recommendation? b) I have automated the dumping of the system in case of panic, using the swap partition as the dumpdev. Luckily, I haven't seen this yet for almost two years, after fixing some problem with an CD-ROM drive. Then, performing an postmortem debugging proved to be helpful, so I don't want to disable this feature. Can I get into trouble if a panic happens now? TIA, J.A.M.M ---- Jesus A. Mora Marin, MD (aka EA7HAC, ex-EC7DVE) Email: amora@zoom.es
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