Re: Out of swap hangs machine

1999-12-05 Thread Szilveszter Adam
On 06-Dec-99 Alexandr Listopad wrote: > 11M free of mem, and 130M free of swap ;) And my FreeBSD never used > swap... as I see on "top". > > Question: why it should be "...2x your RAM.." ??? It is essentially an old rule of thumb but it should be adjusted according to your site's requirem

RE: Out of swap hangs machine

1999-12-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 06-Dec-99 Alexandr Listopad wrote: > 11M free of mem, and 130M free of swap ;) And my FreeBSD never used > swap... as I see on "top". > > Question: why it should be "...2x your RAM.." ??? Well if it doesn't use it them don't worry. 2x RAM seems fine for me, but I run a lot of junk w

RE: Out of swap hangs machine

1999-12-05 Thread Alexandr Listopad
darius> darius>How much RAM do you have? darius> darius>It should be of the order of 2x your RAM.. darius> hi! I have 128Megs of RAM and 130M of swap. 11M free of mem, and 130M free of swap ;) And my FreeBSD never used swap... as I see on "top". Question: why it should be "...2x your RAM