Re: Do I Need To Add More Swap Space?

On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 04:46:23 UTC, Timmy <Timmy14@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have 2-gigs of ram installed, during the install of FBSD I just used
(A) to allocate the whole disk for FBSD. The swap space is over
4-gigs with the 2-gig-ram. (installed)
I just ordered another 2-gig of ram bringing the total amount to 4-gig.
Will I really need to create an 8-gig swap partition before I drop in
the other two gig of ram?

No. That's a daft rule of thumb that went out of date years ago. It's
based partly on the idea that with more RAM, you'll have more users, and
need to back the RAM with more swap space.

Even with a lot of processes running, modern PC systems are not likely
to touch the swap space much. In that situation, I might have committed
1 gig to swap space since diks is cheap.

I have a system used as firewall, static web server, and even a small
squid proxy. It has 512MB of RAM, and no swap space at all. It doesn't
even have a disk!

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