Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 20:39:28 +0100 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How much swap space for a 32 GB RAM system? Message-ID: <20140722203928.6993a78d@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1407221018190.80885@wonkity.com> References: <53CE8BB8.7030303@qeng-ho.org> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1407221018190.80885@wonkity.com>
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On Tue, 22 Jul 2014 10:24:13 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jul 2014, Arthur Chance wrote: > > > I'm getting a new machine with 32 GB of memory. The old "twice > > physical memory" sizing seems ridiculous, so how big should I make > > swap? Do I even need swap with this much memory? > > Technically, no, but the system does like to have at least a little > swap space and can benefit from it. (I forget where this is > explained, tuning(7) maybe.) This is something that is often repeated, but I don't recall every seeing an actual explanation.
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