On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 09:33:24PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote:
|Malcolm Herbert wrote:
|>yet another take on it ... :)
|>
|>here's my disklabel for /dev/raid0g (a 120G RAID mirror):
|>
|>a:/	about 100M, for the reasons already stated
|>
|>b:swap	same size as memory - I tend to think that if you're
|>	using more than that then you've got problems that more
|>	swap won't solve ... 
|
|You might want to make swap slightly larger than exactly the amount of RAM. 
|For one thing, if you have a system panic and need to dump, it's best to 
|have that extra space.  You might also add memory one fine day, and wish 
|you had a little more.

... that's a good point ... :)

|For a 120GB disk, allocating 2 or 2.5 GB versus 1 GB is not a big deal.
|
|Does NetBSD's brk()/sbrk() perform virtual memory overcommit?  In other 
|words, does malloc() ever return a pointer to memory, which referenced, can 
|result in an out-of-swapspace failure condition?

don't know, sorry ...

-- 
Malcolm Herbert
Computer Support Officer
School of Geosciences
Monash University
ph 9905 4881