On Dec 11, 2003, at 12:01 AM, Robert Watson wrote:
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Actually, the thing I use swap for most now is to make sure I can
allocate
large temporary file systems without consuming excessive kernel address
space. I.e., I'll often create a 512mb swap-backed md device for /tmp,
and make sure I have
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003, Mike Silbersack wrote:
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> On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > Hi all.
> >
> > I have a server with 1GB of RAM and a swap partition of 2GB i will upgrade
> > the memory server to 2GB so my questions are:
> >
> > should i fix the swap partition to have now 4GB
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Dec 10), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > I have a server with 1GB of RAM and a swap partition of 2GB i will
> > upgrade the memory server to 2GB so my questions are:
> >
> > should i fix the swap partition to have now 4GB of space ?
>
>
In a message written on Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 02:42:12AM -, Sparrevohn, Thomas
wrote:
> The /var size should properly stay as recommended. But a sanity
> check on the available space when enabling crash dumps might be a
> good idea
Right, I didn't want to change the default suggestion, just pu
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Subject: Re: adding more ram
Speaking of tuning, it should probably mention a swap partition must be larger than
RAM to support crash dumps, and /var needs to have space for nxRAM dumps, where n is
how many you want to keep.
I've seen too many people with 2G RAM and 1G swap, or a 1G machine
Speaking of tuning, it should probably mention a swap partition
must be larger than RAM to support crash dumps, and /var needs to
have space for nxRAM dumps, where n is how many you want to keep.
I've seen too many people with 2G RAM and 1G swap, or a 1G machine
with crash dumps enabled and a 128
> The same was true for 10.20 and 11 Versions of HPUX - I believe there once
> was I very long going debate when the "new" FreeBSD vm was made on the
> issue. The fundamental question at the time was what to do when you run out
> of swap/vm space. The 1-1 backing of swap space was seen as a way to
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Subject: Re: adding more ram
While normally not able to pour water out of a boot with instructions on the
heel
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 09:41:11AM -0500, Bill Vermillion wrote:
> Systems such as the Irix I used before moving the servers to FBSD
> around 1996 - reserverd swap space for applications when the
> application started up so those needed large swap space. Often it
> was never used, but the design a
While normally not able to pour water out of a boot with
instructions on the heel, on Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 02:41
our dear friend Mike Silbersack uttered this load of codswallop:
Just one slight addendum here.
> I'm replying because I want to answer your real question.
> The notion of swap = 2
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I have a server with 1GB of RAM and a swap partition of 2GB i will upgrade
> the memory server to 2GB so my questions are:
>
> should i fix the swap partition to have now 4GB of space ?
>
> what other changes do i have to make to my syste
In the last episode (Dec 10), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> I have a server with 1GB of RAM and a swap partition of 2GB i will
> upgrade the memory server to 2GB so my questions are:
>
> should i fix the swap partition to have now 4GB of space ?
Depends. Have you ever used up that 2gb of swap? If n
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