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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!peer-news.britain.eu.net!warwick!news.coventry.ac.uk!news 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 Organization: Visual and Information DEsign centre, Coventry Universtiy Lines: 18 Sender: justin@virtue.vide.coventry.ac.uk Message-ID: <5320p8z6ym.fsf@virtue.vide.coventry.ac.uk> References: <4cplfe$bpk@news.halcyon.com> <4cpr6p$8cn@dyson.iquest.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: @vide-gate.coventry.ac.uk In-reply-to: root@dyson.iquest.net's message of Mon, 8 Jan 1996 01:15:05 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.0.12 >>>>> "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 -- ~ o - "There is nothing a vulture hates more than a glass eye." | - \_/ - Justin Murdock, +44 1203 838522. This man is very strange