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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!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!noc.near.net!news2.near.net!msgi.com!msgi.com!not-for-mail From: gryphon@msgi.com (Coranth Gryphon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How many swap for FreeBSD ?? Date: 2 Aug 1995 08:42:38 -0400 Organization: MSG, Inc. (Burlington, MA) Lines: 21 Message-ID: <3vnrru$qdt@hydra.msgi.com> References: <3v84si$8n0@news.ust.hk> <3vipqp$suj@news.Belgium.EU.net> <3vjoh5$3gs@blob.best.net> <3vjq9m$h63@cronkite.seas.gwu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: hydra.msgi.com David O'Brien <dobrien@seas.gwu.edu> wrote: >Acutally, both of you are right. The 2*RAM is crap. In the older days ... >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". Both home and work systems have 16MB Ram. I run 64MB Swap on the home system, and 96MB on the work (software developement) system. Anything less occasionally causes swap problems. Note that I do NOT use X. -coranth ------------------------------------------+------------------------+ Coranth Gryphon <gryphon@healer.com> | "Faith Manages." | | - Satai Delenn | Phone: 603-598-3440 Fax: 603-598-3430 +------------------------+ USMail: 11 Carver St, Nashua, NH 03060 Disclaimer: All these words are yours, except Europa...