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From: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Running X-Windows on 4 meg ram
Date: 24 May 1995 03:34:19 GMT
Organization: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica
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In article <3prg8i$r7d@engnews2.eng.sun.com>, Eric van Bezooijen <ericvb@Sun.COM> wrote:
:Josh Blumberg (jb011c@uhura.cc.rochester.edu) wrote:
:
:: My idea was that I would by a new hard drive(I've found a 1.2 gig 9ms access
:: time for $300), split it giving FreeBSD about 500 meg... Make a huge 30
:: meg. swap file...
:
:A 300 Mb swap file for a machine with 4 Mb of RAM ? That's an order of
:magnitude more than you will *ever* need with 4 Mb or RAM. I would spend
:your money on an extra 4 Mb of RAM, and get a smaller disk.
Actually, he *did* say 30 megs of swap, which is huge for a 4-meg
system. He doesn't say how much disk he has currently (or did he? I
might have deleted it), but when I had to choose between 8 or 16 megs
of RAM, and 500 megs or 1 gigabyte of disk, I chose more RAM. Haven't
regretted the decision yet.
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org