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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!noc.netcom.net!news.sprintlink.net!gatech!newsfeed.pitt.edu!uunet!in1.uu.net!gwu.edu!seas.gwu.edu!dobrien From: dobrien@seas.gwu.edu (David O'Brien) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How many swap for FreeBSD ?? Date: 31 Jul 1995 23:51:18 GMT Organization: George Washington University Lines: 32 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3vjq9m$h63@cronkite.seas.gwu.edu> References: <3v84si$8n0@news.ust.hk> <3vh3oj$q0v@blob.best.net> <3vipqp$suj@news.Belgium.EU.net> <3vjoh5$3gs@blob.best.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.164.9.3 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Matt Dillon (dillon@best.com) wrote: : :In article <3vipqp$suj@news.Belgium.EU.net>, Danny Backx <u27113@kb.be> wrote: : :>dillon@best.com (Matt Dillon) wrote: : :>> The rule of thumb is to put twice as much swap in as you have : :> : :>The 2*RAM rule is a lot of crap ! : :> : No shit sherlock! That's why it is called "A rule of thumb". I would : be pleased if you took my comments in their proper context before you : spewed forth, and it would perhaps be a good idea, as well, to give the : poor guy a better answer then the equivalent of 'experiment for a couple : of weeks repartitioning your disk every other day until you hit upon : the right amount'. Acutally, both of you are right. The 2*RAM is crap. In the older days (at least with Sun's) you tended to get a workstation with N amount of RAM and it kept going up as OpenWindows and everything else grew. Remember when 16-24meg in an SPARC 1 or IPC was the norm? Today, I don't know of anyone that puts less than 32meg in their Classics or Sparc5. So the 2*RAM may have some maret. But, FreeBSD'ers seem to run anywhere from 8meg-64meg. So the 2*RAM doesn't help much. What would be nice, like suggested above, for people to give their experiences rather than an "play with it your self". Re-partitioning a disk can be a real pain when you have real data on it. A "I run X, and ususally two copies of gcc, and rn at the same time with N amount of swap" would be nice. -- David (dobrien@seas.gwu.edu)