> > Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > No problem. (I didn't even know that was something to be sorry for.) > But please reconsider promulgating that lousy old 2xRAM rule of thumb. > Your "total space" is what should count; the issue should what total > space is needed, not what multiple of RAM is needed. Eg, if they have 1 > GB RAM, they don't need 2GB swap.
Sort of true, though real memory is still different from swap and a busy system wth a lot of processes hanging around can use a lot of swap even when it isn't killing real memory. Anyway, I have a couple of systems with 1GB memory and 2GB swap and many with 0.5 GB memory and 1GB swap. and even one (non-FreeBSD) system with 7.5 GB memory and 20 GB swap. > What is a good rule of thumb for > total space? I usually give newbies a number around 300MB. To keep the > rule of thumb simple for swap-sizing, don't subtract the RAM from "total > space". Just say "a good rule of thumb for swap is 300MB". The number > is debatable (probably in the 200-400MB range), but the rule has the > advantage of being more easily adjusted for non-rule-of-thumb cases. It really depends on how the system is being used. Some newer stuff seems to suck up swap pretty quickly and just devour memory. You'd think MS designed some of the stuff. Anyway, that guy with a total of 192MB total combined memory and swap and trying to run Apache2, plus MySQL and another big thing, I forgot what, was way below what he needed. ////jerry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
