Re: Swap Size Importance?

2006-09-29 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 29 September 2006 11:52, Chris wrote: As a standard practice, I've always configured swap file to be double the size of real ram split across system and data disk. For example, 8gb on da0 and 8gb on da1 if the system has 8g real ram. In practice, In 7 or 8 years, I've never seen swap

Re: Swap Size Importance?

2006-09-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 08:52:58AM -0700, Chris wrote: As a standard practice, I've always configured swap file to be double the size of real ram split across system and data disk. For example, 8gb on da0 and 8gb on da1 if the system has 8g real ram. In practice, In 7 or 8 years, I've

Re: Swap Size Importance?

2006-09-29 Thread Chris
On Sep 29, 2006, at 9:06 AM, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 08:52:58AM -0700, Chris wrote: Is there any shortfall in performance or reliability to running production with swap equal in size to the 8gb of system memory? I doesn't matter much. But, if you run enough to