some questions about disk partitioning and filesystems and booting

Ottavio Caruso ottavio2006-usenet2012 at yahoo.com
Thu Feb 13 15:19:43 UTC 2020


On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 at 15:02, tech-lists <tech-lists at zyxst.net> wrote:
> The bsdinstaller defaults to 4GB swap. Isn't this insufficient on a 32GB
> system?

With 32GB RAM you might not even need swap at all, ever. I,
personally, wouldn't even bother, but that depends on the load.

> Doesn't swap need to be 2x RAM on a fast disk?

No, this is really an old assumption.

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Ottavio Caruso


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