Swap size
Bruce Cran
bruce at cran.org.uk
Wed Jan 5 23:14:30 UTC 2011
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 23:11:36 +0000
Alexander Best <arundel at freebsd.org> wrote:
> don't quote me, but i don't think *too much* swap space can cause an
> issue. if you have a lot of disk space available (> 1TB or so) make
> it 12 GB. if you only have a few gigabyte of hdd space then choose 6
> GB swap space.
If really excessive I think it can be, since I think each page of swap
has to have an associated structure held in RAM.
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Bruce Cran
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