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From: mi@rtfm.ziplink.net (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Netscape - X Windows swapping problem
Date: 17 Apr 1997 14:41:38 GMT
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Honorable Ron Echeverri
      wrote on 15 Apr (in article <5j0tll$s9g$1@bofh.noc.best.net>):

>>Total swap (with the 48Mb of RAM) is
=
=I only have 32MB of RAM; who knows how much difference that makes...

Speed only, but you have to compensate with more swap.

>>mi@rtfm:~/.knews (1210) pstat -s
>>Device      1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Type
>>/dev/sd0s1b     32768    32696        8   100%    Interleaved
>>/dev/sd1s1b     65536    44944    20528    69%    Interleaved
>>Total           98176    77640    20536    79%

=How long has it been running?

Two days.

>>I also have knews, 12 xterms, fvwm95 with lots of icons, Wingz
>>tkman and minor x-clients (clock, youbin, etc.) running.

=I have 13 xterms, emacs, and fvwm, so it's very similar to your
=setup.  I'm also running apache and inn (small feed).

Those are big... How much do they eat? Anyway, increasing swap
is a good thing -- can never have too much of it :) .

Netscape wants about 30M after a while, from what I know...

	-mi
-- 
	"Windows for dummies"