swap space

[Franco Bruno Borghesi]

Actually having a separated disk for swap should increase your performance.
But my opinion is that if you really need *all* the 40 GB of swap when your 
system's ram is 3 GB, you won't see the difference: most of the data your 
system needs is swapped out!

You could add a partition to your new disk (let's say 2 or 3 times the 
amount of ram), and leave the rest unpartitioned. You could use that extra 
space later for nightly backups, emergencies, etc. without loosing your 
performance gain.

Hope it helps.

PS: Is there a FreeBSD 5.4 stable version?


2005/5/3, Chris Knipe <savage at savage.za.org>:
> 
> 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.
> 
> --
> Chris.
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