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? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | electronics, communications, and signal processing. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words in the dictionary. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
