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From: srose@mr.net (Steve Rose)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How many swap for FreeBSD ??
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1995 20:48:45 GMT
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dobrien@seas.gwu.edu (David O'Brien) wrote:


>But, FreeBSD'ers seem to run anywhere from 8meg-64meg.  So the 2*RAM
>doesn't help much.  What would be nice, like suggested above, for people
>to give their experiences rather than an "play with it your self".
>Re-partitioning a disk can be a real pain when you have real data on it.

>A "I run X, and ususally two copies of gcc, and rn at the same time with
>N amount of swap" would be nice.

I run X using the Mach_64, on mine, I have 20mb physical and 50mb
swap. Typically run fvwm with 3-4 xterms, ppp connection, xmh,
Netscape, maybe news or an ftp session. Haven't had any problems yet.