swap space

Glenn Dawson glenn at antimatter.net
Tue May 3 13:12:15 PDT 2005


At 11:32 AM 5/3/2005, Chris Knipe wrote:
>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?

There are practical limits to how much swap you can or want to have on your 
system.

Take a look at this for more info
http://kerneltrap.org/node/323?PHPSESSID=9c6e97871e0d3a3632de7ccff346b0c6

-Glenn


>We're running FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>
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>Chris.
>
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