How manu swap ?

[Albert Shih]

 Le 16/01/2008 à 11:18:57-0500, Jerry McAllister a écrit
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 04:04:54PM +0100, Albert Shih wrote:
> 
> > Hi all
> > 
> > I known it's classic question. 
> > 
> > Long time ago when I install a FreeBSD x86 32 bits when I have N Go of Ram
> > the installer take 2xN Go for the swap partition.
> > 
> > Now I just install two machine with FreeBSD amd64 version with 8Go of Ram
> > and FreeBSD installer take 4 Go of swap.
> > 
> > Is a bug in the installer or now FreeBSD don't need 2xRam of swap ?
> 
> Hmmmm.   I doubt that it is a "bug" per se.   I wonder if there is 
> a maximum size for swap compiled in somewhere.   Is your system set
> up correctly to actually access all 8GB of ram?

Yes...

Mem: 8064K Active, 6076K Inact, 68M Wired, 8896K Buf, 7829M Free
Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M Free

and the second machine 

Mem: 12M Active, 561M Inact, 322M Wired, 12K Cache, 214M Buf, 15G Free
Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M Free

Regards.

JAS
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