swap space

Chris Knipe savage at savage.za.org
Tue May 3 11:32:58 PDT 2005


Hi,

Simple question really... Can you ever have to much swap space?

We're sitting with quite a nifty P4 System with 1GB Ram.  We will more than 
likely add another 2 or 3GB in the month to come as our applications (mainly 
perl) are consuming vast amounts of memory and swap.

We made the mistake however of just allocating 512MB swap as we did not know 
accurately at the time of installation what the resouce requires are going 
to be (especially not that it would be this high).

Obviously reinstalling the entire OS / Applications is not really a option. 
We may want to install a dedicated 40GB just for swap... Would this be 
advisable, or will it actually slow the system down?  And to what extend?

We're running FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE.

Thanks in advance.


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