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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU!ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au!lugb!latcs1!wongm Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: swap space, X server for syscons-0.2 Message-ID: <CCBL2A.IyH@latcs1.lat.oz.au> From: wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au (M.C. Wong) Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1993 14:46:57 GMT Organization: Comp Sci, La Trobe Uni, Australia Lines: 37 Hi, In a previous posting, I get some helpful replies by some of those kind souls. And I got swapinfo to check on the use of my swap partition. And as it reveals, 5 MB is definitely too small. But there is one thing I do not quite understand the way 386bsd does virtual memory management. I have tried running some applications (like xfig, ghostview, etc) and did swapinfo before, during and after those app. execution. Initially, my system is not fully loaded to need any swapping, when those app are loaded, swapinfo reveals about 80% - 100% of swap space used (varied depending on which app.). But when I quit those new app, and did swapinfo again, it reveals that the the swap space in use it still the same as last revealed while the app was running. And, of course I try activate every program on the screen (from X) to see if any of those swapped-out pages are swapped-in again, by running swapinfo again, but it didn't show any change on the swap space used. I wonder if this is the behaviour (ie the pages that swapped out are not my on-scree programs but rather system daemons etc?) expected ? Or should I see a 0% capacity , ie back to original state before I ran those extra app. (xfig, ghostview etc) ? Secondly, someone points me to fetch an updated of X server for XF86_SVGA that has bug fix for line drawing function. I wonder does there exis a version for syscons-0.2 as well ? I am running syscons-0.2 and feel that its performance is better than pccons and codrv, I wonder will syscons makes its way into XFree-2.0 ? One last question, I remember reading some general guidelines/formula for allocate swap space from the book "Unix Administration Handbook", but can't remember exactly what it is, and I don't have access to that book anymore, I wonder if someone can let me know ? Also, I plan to disklabel my new disk in such a way that I am leaving some "hole" between parition b and other paritions to leave some room for grow for the new additional swap partition, is that feasible ? Has anyone done it before ? How about if I use the extra hole to augment an existing file system ? Thanks in advance! -- - wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au