Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 16:42:51 -0300 From: Franco Bruno Borghesi <fborghesi@gmail.com> To: Chris Knipe <savage@savage.za.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: swap space Message-ID: <e13c14ec05050312423a8185b0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <000601c5500e$85b4f3c0$0a01a8c0@ops.cenergynetworks.com> References: <000601c5500e$85b4f3c0$0a01a8c0@ops.cenergynetworks.com>
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Actually having a separated disk for swap should increase your performance. But my opinion is that if you really need *all* the 40 GB of swap when your system's ram is 3 GB, you won't see the difference: most of the data your system needs is swapped out! You could add a partition to your new disk (let's say 2 or 3 times the amount of ram), and leave the rest unpartitioned. You could use that extra space later for nightly backups, emergencies, etc. without loosing your performance gain. Hope it helps. PS: Is there a FreeBSD 5.4 stable version? 2005/5/3, Chris Knipe <savage@savage.za.org>: > > Hi, > > Simple question really... Can you ever have to much swap space? > > We're sitting with quite a nifty P4 System with 1GB Ram. We will more than > likely add another 2 or 3GB in the month to come as our applications > (mainly > perl) are consuming vast amounts of memory and swap. > > We made the mistake however of just allocating 512MB swap as we did not > know > accurately at the time of installation what the resouce requires are going > to be (especially not that it would be this high). > > Obviously reinstalling the entire OS / Applications is not really a > option. > We may want to install a dedicated 40GB just for swap... Would this be > advisable, or will it actually slow the system down? And to what extend? > > We're running FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE. > > Thanks in advance. > > -- > Chris. > > I love deadlines. I especially love the whooshing sound they make as they > fly by..." - Douglas Adams, 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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