On Mon, 5 Sep 2011 14:48:57 -0500 Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Sep 05), Sean Hamilton said: > > What is the state of the art for the recommended amount of swap in > > FreeBSD? Both "normal" systems with 512 MB - 8 GB of RAM, and large > > database systems with around 128 - 256 GB. > > I suggest 2x RAM for systems less than 4gb or so. Anything more than > 4GB of swap is probably never going to be used, and if it is used, > you're just going to thrash your swap device.
but tmpfs (and swap-backed md devices) can use substantial amounts of swap without contributing to thrashing. In some cases it may be possible to justify larger amounts of swap. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
