Re: Maximum swap size?

2008-07-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
My first question is, why are you partitioning more than 2x your RAM? I highly doubt you have 16GB of RAM. probably because he need it. 2x is just rough estimate, real requirements depends on load ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Maximum swap size?

2008-06-30 Thread snott
Is there a maximum swap size limitation? I'm using a 64-bit arch and only seem to get about 32GB of usable swap out of a 250GB disk (all of /dev/ad6) Thanks, Skye # uname -a FreeBSD XX 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 10:35:36 UTC 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys

Re: Maximum swap size?

2008-06-30 Thread Ryan Coleman
snott wrote: Is there a maximum swap size limitation? I'm using a 64-bit arch and only seem to get about 32GB of usable swap out of a 250GB disk (all of /dev/ad6) Thanks, Skye # uname -a FreeBSD XX 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 10:35:36 UTC 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj

Re: Maximum swap size?

2008-06-30 Thread snott
: snott wrote: Is there a maximum swap size limitation? I'm using a 64-bit arch and only seem to get about 32GB of usable swap out of a 250GB disk (all of /dev/ad6) Thanks, Skye My first question is, why are you partitioning more than 2x your RAM? I highly doubt you have 16GB of RAM

Re: Maximum swap size?

2008-06-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
snott wrote: Trust me, I really do want 250GB (or more) of swap. I'm using swap as a backing store for an HTTP reverse proxy for very large cache sets. Its more efficient to just use the vm layer for LRU object management than to create a huge mmap'd file with file buf caching. I am not

Re: Maximum Swap Size

2004-06-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
Scott Ballantyne wrote: Hmmm... I didn't know there was a maximum swap size on FreeBSD 4.10 of 1677216 blocks... Is there an easy way to reduce this partition without redoing the entire install? Yes. Delete just the swap partition in place, then recreate it using a smaller size (using /stand

Maximum Swap Size

2004-06-06 Thread Scott Ballantyne
Hmmm... I didn't know there was a maximum swap size on FreeBSD 4.10 of 1677216 blocks... Is there an easy way to reduce this partition without redoing the entire install? sdb ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo