Date: 31 Jul 2002 16:21:56 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 1GB ram, how much SWAP? Message-ID: <44ado7ejh7.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20020731194842.GL22253@web.ca> References: <20020731171728.GH22253@web.ca> <87u1mfk9me.fsf@pooh.int> <20020731194842.GL22253@web.ca>
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Rob Ellis <rob@web.ca> writes: > the consensus seems to be that if you want to be able to get > crash dumps, you need a single partition == to your memory 64k more than your memory, actually... > i think if there are problems with a machine crashing, it wouldn't > be hard to put an old ide drive in it, and configure for crash > dumps. Yes, or compile a custom kernel to recognize less RAM than you have swap space... > in the meantime, 1GB ram + .5GB swap still seems like lots? Depends on how much virtual address space you're using at once. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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