swap space on multiple drives

2003-11-29 Thread Charles Howse
Hi,
After reading the following section of the Handbook, I'm still a little 
confused.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/
configtuning-initial.html#SWAP-DESIGN

If I have 128MB ram, and 2 drives on seperate controllers, would I create swap 
partitions of 256MB on each drive?

What if I have 1GB ram?  It won't be swapping much anyway.  Surely 2 swap 
partitions of 2GB each won't hurt, but is that overkill?


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Thanks,
Charles
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Re: swap space on multiple drives

2003-11-29 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 02:15:38PM -0600, Charles Howse wrote:
 Hi,
 After reading the following section of the Handbook, I'm still a little 
 confused.
 
 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/
 configtuning-initial.html#SWAP-DESIGN
 
 If I have 128MB ram, and 2 drives on seperate controllers, would I create swap 
 partitions of 256MB on each drive?

No 256+256=512 so you would put half on each.

 What if I have 1GB ram?  It won't be swapping much anyway.  Surely 2 swap 
 partitions of 2GB each won't hurt, but is that overkill?

It not a rule more of a guide line. You can safly put less on it if you
don't swap much. Dont go to low. You don't want to a situation where
100% is a posiblity. This could panic your system.

-- 
Alex

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http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/
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