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From: justin@vide.coventry.ac.uk (Justin Murdock)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Info needed
Date: 10 Jan 1996 10:20:49 +0000
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>>>>> "John" == John S Dyson <root@dyson.iquest.net> writes:

John> There is alot of legend as to how much swap space that various
John> OSes use, including FreeBSD.  Basically, you need to back all of
John> physical memory with swap space.  After that the swap space will
John> add to your total virtual.  So if you have 16MB of ram, and 40MB
John> of swap, you should expect 40MB of virtual.

Is this right? not 56? I can see that it would help simplify swapping,
but it does seem a little odd. Are we likely to see "virtual swap"
anytime soon. (I hope not - what an icky horrid idea)

John> John Dyson dyson@freebsd.org

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