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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!network.ucsd.edu!sdcc12!icogsci2!cg18fbi From: cg18fbi@icogsci2.ucsd.edu (Richard Dante) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Anyone played around with more than 16 megs o ram? Message-ID: <45817@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> Date: 1 Mar 93 06:23:44 GMT Sender: news@sdcc12.ucsd.edu Organization: University of California, San Diego Lines: 15 Nntp-Posting-Host: icogsci2.ucsd.edu Is the consensys that greater than 16 megs of ram is useless in 386BSD? Since I have only 12, I can't use this method to find out although I imagine someone with greater than 16 megs of ram (and a greater than 16 megs swap partition to support the MFS) can play around with a memory filesystem. That is after mounting a memory filesystem you could copy big files into it (a 1 meg file would be a nice size) and wait until you get swapping and note when that occurs. I've done this with my memory filesystems but since I only have 12 megs the only thing I've been able to confirm is the VM memory leaks. Please flame if this method wouldn't be a good way to test the usefulness of greater than 12 megs o ram Rick Dante rdante@sdcc13.ucsd.edu