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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.lava.net!news-w.ans.net!newsfeeds.ans.net!feeder.chicago.cic.net!cs.utexas.edu!howland.erols.net!EU.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!uknet!newsfeed.ed.ac.uk!edcogsci!richard From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Subject: Re: 2.2 GAMMA 2/5 results in SWAP FULL? Message-ID: <E5ysJt.5AL@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh References: <m267zzxceb.fsf@golfgod.raleigh.ibm.com> <3300F172.41C67EA6@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 17:57:28 GMT Lines: 17 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35933 In article <3300F172.41C67EA6@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> "Steven G. Kargl" <kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> writes: >I recommend a minimum of 2 times real >memory for swap space. You're thinking of it the wrong way round. Decide how much space you need for the programs you want to run, then get as much real memory as possible up to that amount. Indeed, since in FreeBSD swap space is in effect *in addition to* real memory (unlike some systems where all memory is backed by swap), the more real memory you have the less swap space you need. -- Richard -- "Cake is a bistrubile cranabolic amphetamoid"