How manu swap ?

2008-01-16 Thread Albert Shih
Hi all I known it's classic question. Long time ago when I install a FreeBSD x86 32 bits when I have N Go of Ram the installer take 2xN Go for the swap partition. Now I just install two machine with FreeBSD amd64 version with 8Go of Ram and FreeBSD installer take 4 Go of swap. Is a bug in the

Re: How manu swap ?

2008-01-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 04:04:54PM +0100, Albert Shih wrote: Hi all I known it's classic question. Long time ago when I install a FreeBSD x86 32 bits when I have N Go of Ram the installer take 2xN Go for the swap partition. Now I just install two machine with FreeBSD amd64 version

Re: How manu swap ?

2008-01-16 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 16), Albert Shih said: Hi all I known it's classic question. Long time ago when I install a FreeBSD x86 32 bits when I have N Go of Ram the installer take 2xN Go for the swap partition. Now I just install two machine with FreeBSD amd64 version with 8Go of Ram

Re: How manu swap ?

2008-01-16 Thread Albert Shih
Le 16/01/2008 à 11:18:57-0500, Jerry McAllister a écrit On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 04:04:54PM +0100, Albert Shih wrote: Hi all I known it's classic question. Long time ago when I install a FreeBSD x86 32 bits when I have N Go of Ram the installer take 2xN Go for the swap partition.

Re: How manu swap ?

2008-01-16 Thread Albert Shih
Le 16/01/2008 à 10:28:06-0600, Dan Nelson a écrit In the last episode (Jan 16), Albert Shih said: Hi all I known it's classic question. Long time ago when I install a FreeBSD x86 32 bits when I have N Go of Ram the installer take 2xN Go for the swap partition. Now I just

Re: How manu swap ?

2008-01-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
none if your ram will always fit all apps (with 8GB is more than likely), or at least size of your memory, more if needed. but you can't give too much swap! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: How manu swap ?

2008-01-16 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Albert Shih [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Le 16/01/2008 à 10:28:06-0600, Dan Nelson a écrit In the last episode (Jan 16), Albert Shih said: Hi all I known it's classic question. Long time ago when I install a FreeBSD x86 32 bits when I have N Go of Ram the installer

Re: How manu swap ?

2008-01-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 10:28:06AM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jan 16), Albert Shih said: Hi all I known it's classic question. Long time ago when I install a FreeBSD x86 32 bits when I have N Go of Ram the installer take 2xN Go for the swap partition. Now I

Re: How manu swap ?

2008-01-16 Thread Bruce Cran
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jan 16), Albert Shih said: Hi all I known it's classic question. Long time ago when I install a FreeBSD x86 32 bits when I have N Go of Ram the installer take 2xN Go for the swap partition. Now I just install two machine with FreeBSD amd64 version

Re: How manu swap ?

2008-01-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
* Disk space is cheap. 16G of swap costs what? 15G of 15,000 RPM SCSI not mentioning IDE disks, on 4GB RAM+6 SATA disk system i allocated 2GB swap on each disk. most of the time little is used, but when it will be needed - it is ___