Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 10:24:13 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How much swap space for a 32 GB RAM system? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1407221018190.80885@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <53CE8BB8.7030303@qeng-ho.org> References: <53CE8BB8.7030303@qeng-ho.org>
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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.) How much swap to allocate depends on the use of the system. On desktop-type systems where I'd normally not expect swap to be needed, I usually use 4G as a size large enough to be useful if it is ever needed but not so big as to make a noticeable dent in disk usage.
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