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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!decwrl!csus.edu!netcomsv!mork!kwan From: kwan@netcom.com (Kwan-Seng Low) Subject: Re: stock 0.1 swap not enough. Message-ID: <m1tmpxq.kwan@netcom.com> Date: Mon, 03 Aug 92 18:00:15 GMT Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) References: <BsDzMo.1ru@chinet.chi.il.us> Keywords: swap In article <BsDzMo.1ru@chinet.chi.il.us> randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess) writes: > > Well, I now have proof that the stock 5 meg swap partition > created with the 0.1 install disk is not enough. I added > a second disk and gave it another 5 megs of swap (I have > 8 megs memory) using swapon. I then compiled libc, and > during the ar phase (after creating all the .po's) the > second drive started blinking like mad. Also during the > nroff -mandoc of the man files. The compile did finish. > Any idea on what the recommended total swap size for > 8 megs and 16 megs of memory is? > >-- > I am created Shiva the Destroyer; Death, the shatterer of worlds! > Who is this dog meat who stands before me now? > That's the biz, sweetheart. >Randy Suess randy@chinet.chi.il.us According to Sun for SunOS, they recommend the swap size at least 2.5 times the memory...., so 24Meg swap for 8Meg. mem, 40Megs for 16Mb mem. I've 45Megs swap for my 0.1, even though I only have 8Mb mem. Kwan