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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Too much swap???
Date: 10 Dec 1995 16:44:10 GMT
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blair@cyber-naut.com (Blair Schmittel) writes:
> I was wondering if there is such a thing as too much
> swap space with FreeBSD 2.1?

Only in the sentence: ``You cannot have too much swap space.''
:-)

> I was reading somewhere that too much swap slows down
> the system.   Is this true?

No way.
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)