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#! rnews 1695 sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au Path: sserve!euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!nntp.gmd.de!news.rwth-aachen.de!not-for-mail From: thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de (Thomas Gellekum) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How many swap for FreeBSD ?? Date: 1 Aug 1995 06:19:52 GMT Organization: <this space intentionally left blank> Lines: 22 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3vkh28$32p@news.rwth-aachen.de> References: <3v84si$8n0@news.ust.hk> <3vh3oj$q0v@blob.best.net> <3vipqp$suj@news.Belgium.EU.net> <3vjoh5$3gs@blob.best.net> <3vjq9m$h63@cronkite.seas.gwu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950621BETA PL0] David O'Brien (dobrien@seas.gwu.edu) wrote: > > A "I run X, and ususally two copies of gcc, and rn at the same time with > N amount of swap" would be nice. From my experience: 16 MB RAM + 20 MB swap is too few if you run X, some xterms, ghostscript, TeX, a make and maybe one more user on a terminal. It doesn't page too much, but virtual memory is exhausted quickly. 8 MB RAM + 60 MB swap works for me with the same load. More paging, of course, but still usable. IME, the biggest jump in performance was an upgrade from 4 to 8 MB RAM (in the 386bsd days). More RAM is nice, but if you don't have it for whatever reason, you can probably work with 8 MB, if you don't run really big single processes (number crunching with huge matrices, image processing on several 1024 x 1024 pixel images at once, and the like). But make sure you have plenty of swap in any case; 40 MB is probably the minimum, IMO. tg