Re: Maximum Swapsize

2006-04-11 Thread Matthew Dillon
From 'man tuning' (I think I wrote this, a long time ago): You should typically size your swap space to approximately 2x main mem- ory. If you do not have a lot of RAM, though, you will generally want a lot more swap. It is not recommended that you configure any less than

Re: Maximum Swapsize

2006-04-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 12:56:30PM +0200, Michael Schuh wrote: > 2006/4/10, Michael Schuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hello @all, > > > > last weekend i have setted up an new Machine with > > 6.1-Beta4. By Installation i have made an Swappartition > > with the size of 4GB after install in runtime in t

Re: Maximum Swapsize

2006-04-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 10:48:08AM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Tuesday 11 April 2006 01:47, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 06:13:07PM +0200, Michael Schuh wrote: > > > Hello @all, > > > > > > last weekend i have setted up an new Machine with > > > 6.1-Beta4. By Installation

Re: Maximum Swapsize

2006-04-11 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Michael Schuh wrote this message on Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 12:56 +0200: > My Problem was that i can't show my configured swapsize > right... > Partitionsize for swap was 4GB > Showing Value was 2GB, could you post swapinfo -k and disklabel of the appropriate disks? -- John-Mark Gurney

Re: Maximum Swapsize

2006-04-11 Thread Michael Schuh
2006/4/10, Michael Schuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello @all, > > last weekend i have setted up an new Machine with > 6.1-Beta4. By Installation i have made an Swappartition > with the size of 4GB after install in runtime in top > it sseems to me that the maximum swap-size is > limitied to 2GB or bet

Re: Maximum Swapsize

2006-04-11 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 19:28:19 +1000 Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2006-Apr-10 18:45:53 -0700, Pete Slagle wrote: > >When you have very limited physical RAM you need a lot of swap space. > >When you have more than enough RAM you don't need any swap space at all. > >For a given

Re: Maximum Swapsize

2006-04-11 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Mon, 2006-Apr-10 18:45:53 -0700, Pete Slagle wrote: >When you have very limited physical RAM you need a lot of swap space. >When you have more than enough RAM you don't need any swap space at all. >For a given set of applications, as RAM increases you need less swap >space, not more. And vice

Re: Maximum Swapsize

2006-04-10 Thread David Magda
On Apr 10, 2006, at 21:45, Pete Slagle wrote: When you have more than enough RAM you don't need any swap space at all. You need enough swap space to do a dump in case a panic occurs. While panics are (hopefully) rare, if it does happen, you usually want things set up so that you can figur

Re: Maximum Swapsize

2006-04-10 Thread Tony Maher
Pete Slagle wrote: > Daniel O'Connor wrote: > >> The old "swap size = 2x RAM" rule is no longer applicable unless you >> have a very special application. > > This "rule" always seemed counterintuitive to me anyway. > > When you have very limited physical RAM you need a lot of swap space. > When

Re: Maximum Swapsize

2006-04-10 Thread Mark Andrews
> Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > > The old "swap size = 2x RAM" rule is no longer applicable unless you have a > > > very special application. > > This "rule" always seemed counterintuitive to me anyway. > > When you have very limited physical RAM you need a lot of swap space. > When you have mo

Re: Maximum Swapsize

2006-04-10 Thread Pete Slagle
Daniel O'Connor wrote: The old "swap size = 2x RAM" rule is no longer applicable unless you have a very special application. This "rule" always seemed counterintuitive to me anyway. When you have very limited physical RAM you need a lot of swap space. When you have more than enough RAM you d

Re: Maximum Swapsize

2006-04-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 01:47, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 06:13:07PM +0200, Michael Schuh wrote: > > Hello @all, > > > > last weekend i have setted up an new Machine with > > 6.1-Beta4. By Installation i have made an Swappartition > > with the size of 4GB after install in runti

Re: Maximum Swapsize

2006-04-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 06:13:07PM +0200, Michael Schuh wrote: > Hello @all, > > last weekend i have setted up an new Machine with > 6.1-Beta4. By Installation i have made an Swappartition > with the size of 4GB after install in runtime in top > it sseems to me that the maximum swap-size is > limi

Maximum Swapsize

2006-04-10 Thread Michael Schuh
Hello @all, last weekend i have setted up an new Machine with 6.1-Beta4. By Installation i have made an Swappartition with the size of 4GB after install in runtime in top it sseems to me that the maximum swap-size is limitied to 2GB or better to INT_MAX ? At another MAchine with FreeBSD4.11 i hav