Chuck Robey wrote: > Nowadays, what with the price of fast memory at such low levels, I'm > buying more memory than I really need, just because it's *so* cheap, the > price has gone up before, and it's possible (maybe likely) that next > year's popular new app will need the memory. I'm probably not alone in > doing this. It's causing me to wonder about how much swap to allocate. > > I used to follow the rule that I dedicate twice as much disk memory to > swap as I have RAM. Now, with my new system, I'm getting a gig of RAM, > but it seems ridiculous to dedicate 2G of disk to swap. Under these > conditions, what's the real bottom limit (if you have one gig of RAM) for > how much swap you can get away with? One Gig? Less?
Always have enough space reserved so that you can take a crashdump. You will be regretting it someday if you do not. Allowing for memory upgrades is a factor here too. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
