Re: >3955MiB of swap space

2013-06-02 Thread Wojciech Puchar
warning: total configured swap (1178880 pages) exceeds maximum recommended amount (1012480 pages). warning: increase kern.maxswzone or reduce amount of swap. I am yet to hear whether the warning is safe to ignore. Which one of the following is true? (1) Only 3955MiB of swap space will be

Re: >3955MiB of swap space

2013-06-02 Thread dt71
hear whether the warning is safe to ignore. Which one of the following is true? (1) Only 3955MiB of swap space will be used (instead of 4092MiB), but that reduced space will have maximum operational performance. (2) 4096MiB of swap space will be used, at reduced performance. To increase

Re: >3955MiB of swap space

2013-05-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
prefer to repartition the drives for them to have swap partitions each of size (3955/4)MiB. By the way, is swapping distributed evenly among the drives? How? Is there a yes. downfall when one of the drives is outstandingly slow? no really. sometimes swapin would be slower, 3/4 times of case

>3955MiB of swap space

2013-05-27 Thread dt71
of swap space will be used instead of 4092MiB, because using more would cause overhead. I do not prefer to repartition the drives for them to have swap partitions each of size (3955/4)MiB. By the way, is swapping distributed evenly among the drives? How? Is there a downfall when one of the