For the 4.2 version of open BSD, how large should the swap partition ideally be?
is the size the same for i386 and amd64 ? it depends only on physical RAM, please? if I have an old PC for experimenting with say 256 MB RAM. and the latest OpenBSD, how large should ideally the swap be? I do face the problem that even invoking mc the midnight commander takes 60 seconds. Some applications runs well and I can experience no difference to other OS. I think it can be some amd64 problems and it could be that all 32 bit runs faster, http://bulk.fefe.de/scalability/#newdata What do you think? is the OpenBSD Experience suffering of improper swap size partition? # disklabel wd0 # Inside MBR partition 1: type A6 start 143380125 size 20498940 # /dev/rwd0c: type: ESDI disk: ESDI/IDE disk label: HITACHI HDS7225S flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 255 sectors/cylinder: 16065 cylinders: 30400 total sectors: 488390625 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # microseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # microseconds drivedata: 0 16 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] a: 530145 143380125 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1 b: 273105 143910270 swap c: 488390625 0 unused 0 0 d: 2104515 144183375 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1 e: 1060290 146287890 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1 f: 12594960 147348180 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1 h: 3935925 159943140 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1 i: 143364060 16065 unknown # size b: 273105 143910270 swap I set it up with 256 MB swap partition and I have 1GB RAM. is it incorrect? regards Morton _______________________________________________ Openbsd-newbies mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies
