03-01-2002
The swap partition is not your VM, but rather a subsystem in your VMM. The VMM manages your ram. When conditions occure that would require more ram then currently available, the least used snipits of programs are moved to swap, allowing space in ram for the program.
As a general rule, swap should be 1.5 x ram, up to ram = 1gig. At >=1 gig of ram, swap should match ram in size. But this rule of thumb is for a business environment. Generally a home user will not task their box in the same way a business box will be loaded. So matching swap size to ram, if you have >=256 meg of ram is acceptable. This swap size is just to insure that your box can handle the load if for some reason it becomes busier than normal.
Good luck. -mk
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MD(4) BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual MD(4)
NAME
md -- memory disk
SYNOPSIS
device md
DESCRIPTION
The md driver provides support for four kinds of memory backed virtual disks:
malloc Backing store is allocated using malloc(9). Only one malloc-bucket is used, which means that all md devices with malloc backing
must share the malloc-per-bucket-quota. The exact size of this quota varies, in particular with the amount of RAM in the system.
The exact value can be determined with vmstat(8).
preload A file loaded by loader(8) with type 'md_image' is used for backing store. For backwards compatibility the type 'mfs_root' is also
recognized. If the kernel is created with option MD_ROOT the first preloaded image found will become the root file system.
vnode A regular file is used as backing store. This allows for mounting ISO images without the tedious detour over actual physical media.
swap Backing store is allocated from buffer memory. Pages get pushed out to the swap when the system is under memory pressure, otherwise
they stay in the operating memory. Using swap backing is generally preferable over malloc backing.
For more information, please see mdconfig(8).
EXAMPLES
To create a kernel with a ramdisk or MD file system, your kernel config needs the following options:
options MD_ROOT # MD is a potential root device
options MD_ROOT_SIZE=8192 # 8MB ram disk
makeoptions MFS_IMAGE=/h/foo/ARM-MD
options ROOTDEVNAME="ufs:md0"
The image in /h/foo/ARM-MD will be loaded as the initial image each boot. To create the image to use, please follow the steps to create a
file-backed disk found in the mdconfig(8) man page. Other tools will also create these images, such as NanoBSD.
SEE ALSO
disklabel(8), fdisk(8), loader(8), mdconfig(8), mdmfs(8), newfs(8), vmstat(8)
HISTORY
The md driver first appeared in FreeBSD 4.0 as a cleaner replacement for the MFS functionality previously used in PicoBSD and in the FreeBSD
installation process.
The md driver did a hostile takeover of the vn(4) driver in FreeBSD 5.0.
AUTHORS
The md driver was written by Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>.
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October 30, 2007 BSD