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From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: stock 0.1 swap not enough.
Keywords: swap
Message-ID: <7051@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 4 Aug 92 14:58:03 GMT
References: <BsDzMo.1ru@chinet.chi.il.us>
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In article <BsDzMo.1ru@chinet.chi.il.us> randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess) writes:
>	Any idea on what the recommended total swap size for
>	8 megs and 16 megs of memory is?

This is the wrong way to look at it.  The amount of swap space you need
is the total size of all the programs you want to run simultaneously
(allowing for any sharing your operating system provides).  You then
want as much memory as possible up to the total working set of the
programs you want to run simultaneously.

-- Richard
-- 
Richard Tobin,
AI Applications Institute,                                R.Tobin@ed.ac.uk
Edinburgh University.