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From: dsantry@church.dcss.McMaster.CA (Douglas Santry)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD memory requirement
Date: 20 Jun 1996 11:07:41 -0400
Organization: Computer Science & Systems, McMaster University
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In article <Pine.SOL.3.93.960619222235.20516E-100000@bmec.hscbklyn.edu>,
David Zakai  <zakaid99@hscbklyn.edu> wrote:
>
>Basic question:  will I benefit from adding more memory
>than I have now?

Oh yea.  Last weekend I upgraded my machine to 48 megs.  It hasn't paged
*once*.  Not a single bytes of swap has been used.  I run X/fvwm emacs
and big compiles, view movies with xanim, and not a single page has been
written to swap!

My friend has a 64Meg machine running Solaris and after booting and logging
in, he haas ~500 free pages free while I have 9500!  FreeBSD is a lean
efficent creature lemme tell you!

DJS