Adam Vande More writes: > > I will be installing 8.1 on a Dell Poweredge 2850, with dual 3 GHz XEON > > processors and 6GB RAM. > > > > What is the recommended swap space? > > > I'm finding conflicting data on this. Some say 0, some say 1 times RAM, > > others say stay with 2 x RAM. > > > > Definitely not 0, but 2x would probably be way too much IMO. 4 - > 6 GB should be enough for most use cases.
One data point: last pid: 58457; load averages: 1.91, 2.20, 2.27 up 8+19:16:27 18:51:23 166 processes: 5 running, 158 sleeping, 2 stopped, 1 zombie Mem: 1541M Active, 1267M Inact, 1223M Wired, 195M Cache, 802M Buf, 3440M Free Swap: 18G Total, 11M Used, 18G Free (That's 8g total memory.) It's a fairly lightly loaded workstation. A philosophical consideration: modern disks are cheap, and fairly fast. Repartitioning if you don't have enough is a pain. Robert Huff _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"