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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How many swap for FreeBSD ??
Date: 8 Aug 1995 13:00:09 GMT
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syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au (Stephen McKay) wrote:
>And here's what comedians use:
>
>[stupid] # pstat -s
>Device      1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Type
>/dev/wd0b       10240     3520     6656    35%    Interleaved
>/dev/vn0a        3072     2812      196    93%    Interleaved
>Total           13184     6332     6852    48%

I'm awed.. :-)

What's the VN device pointing at - your Windows swap file? :-)

>probably graduate to a 16Mb ram + 64Mb swap combo.  Power users should buy
>lots of ram and a really big disk, and brag about how much swap they can
>afford to waste!

Of course!  It's like owning a red sports car - why have it if you can't
flaunt it a little? :}

						Jordan