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From: rone@bofh.noc.best.net (Ron Echeverri)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.2 GAMMA 2/5 results in SWAP FULL?
Date: 12 Feb 1997 11:39:57 -0800
Organization: fidgety systems administrators gmbh
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In article <5dritf$a1j@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com>,
Netcom user <tjevans@hotmail.com> wrote:
>In article <5dqqo2$bhf@bofh.noc.best.net>,
> rone@bofh.noc.best.net (Ron Echeverri) writes:
>> In article <m267zzxceb.fsf@golfgod.raleigh.ibm.com>,
>> Thomas Evans <tjevans@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>Ran it for about 2 days, SWAP went full (I have 32M real, 20M swap),
>>>I killed everything (X, xfmail, emacs, etc etc) but top would show
>>You're running X and emacs with only 20M swap? You're certainly
>>brave. The recommended amount of swap is 2 * RAM. I run Netscape, so
>>i have to take an extra 30-40MB of swap for that alone.
>hmmm...I'm running netscape, knews, xfmail, X/fvwm, xplaycd, 5 xterms, and
>my Linux box shows a mere 312K used, I've recompile the kernel to take out
>drivers I didn't need and decrease the number of users back down to 10
>(from 50).
The way linux and FreeBSD allocate swap are not the same. You might
as well compare swap usage on a Win95 box with your linux box.
rone
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