Recommended amount of swap

Eitan Adler lists at eitanadler.com
Mon Sep 5 20:53:58 UTC 2011


On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Dan Nelson <dnelson at allantgroup.com> wrote:
> In the last episode (Sep 05), Sean Hamilton said:
>> What is the state of the art for the recommended amount of swap in
>> FreeBSD? Both "normal" systems with 512 MB - 8 GB of RAM, and large
>> database systems with around 128 - 256 GB.

Keep in mind that you need at least ram = swap to get a coredump.

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