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From: csshah@sunvis2.vislab.olemiss.edu (Viren R. Shah)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: My 386bsd is dead (again)
Date: 30 Aug 93 13:46:27 GMT
Organization: Mississippi Center for SuperComputing Research
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In <haley.746691132@husc.harvard.edu> haley@husc8.harvard.edu (Elizabeth Haley) writes:
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>Anyway, I have heard the recommendation that your swap size be about
>twice the size of your RAM. Mine is currently 16 meg, cause I hope to
>have 8 meg of RAM one day when I can afford it... (I hate being poor!)
I've read this in the FAQ, and lots of people have recommended that
having a swap space thats twice the size of your RAM is good. However,
my question is : What happens if i have a swap space of about 100Mb
with 16Mb of RAM? will it be a waste? will it inefficient and not
completely used? The reason i ask this is that with my current
configuration (16Mb with 40Mb RAM), i still see my system doing
massive amounts of swapping when compiling PCN (which is a concurrent
language). As we are getting a new system soon, and will, in all
probability, be running PCN on it, I would like to reduce that problem
by increasing the swap space to 100Mb. So, whats the concensus -- am i
wasting disk resources by doing that?
>If you love your fun...
>|[{(<=--=>)}]|David Charles Todd, tHE mAN wITH tHREE fIRST nAMES|[{(<=--=>)}]|
>|||||||||||||||||||||||||hacksaw@headcheese.daa.uc.edu||||||||||||||||||||||||
> ...Die for it!
viren
viren@cy.cs.olemiss.edu
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