RAM increase + swap

[Benjamin Walkenhorst]

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On Mittwoch, 20. August 2003 09:57 chael at southgate.ph.inter.net wrote:
> Hello,
>
> If I put in additional 256MB RAM module ontop my already 256MB system,
> don't I need to increase the /swap partition size? Current swap is only at
> 512 (mem x 2). How do you resize a partition inside a freebsd slice, btw?

Hello,

1) Increasing the swap-partitions size will be hard to impossible, I'm afraid
2) You probably don't need to, anyway. Did you watch how much of your swap 
space ever becomes utilized? You would have to push your machine really hard 
in order to make it run out of swap. Unless you need the swap space for 
crashdumps, 512MB swap should be *more* than sufficient. FreeBSD has 
excellent memory managment, and nowadays you don't need as much swap as you 
did some years ago. But you can specify different locations for crashdumps 
(if I am not mistaken). 

Kind regards,

Benjamin
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Benjamin Walkenhorst
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