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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!news.inap.net!news1!not-for-mail From: root@dyson.iquest.net (Charlie Root) Subject: Re: FreeBSD a memory hog ? X-Nntp-Posting-Host: dyson.iquest.net Message-ID: <4k4npl$6n8@dyson.iquest.net> Sender: news@iquest.net (News Admin) Organization: John S. Dyson's Machine References: <dkleinh.828415914@isotope.ps.uci.edu> <Dp98I4.22E@yedi.iaf.nl> <4k1ifp$krb@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 03:18:13 GMT Lines: 18 In article <4k1ifp$krb@uriah.heep.sax.de>, J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: >wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte) writes: > >> The memory is going to the memory hog called Netscape. If I remember >> correctly Linux has a sort of lazy swap allocation meaning that you >> would have had 16Mb RAM + 16Mb swap = 32 Mb virtual with Linux. >> >> FreeBSD has virtual == swap space when I'm not mistaken. > >FreeBSD does also have lazy swap. > It does, but it also eventually (under load) has the requirement that the all of memory must be backed by swap. You can usually get by with less, but you'll be sorry :-). John