From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 9 00:51:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA01387 for current-outgoing; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 00:51:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA01371 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 00:51:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA20836; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 09:51:16 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA16355; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 09:51:15 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id JAA25102; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 09:29:19 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199610090729.JAA25102@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: 961006-SNAP comments To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 09:29:19 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: danj@netcom.com Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199610090523.OAA13667@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Oct 9, 96 02:53:05 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Michael Smith wrote: > > --- Calculate --- > > swap = max( ( T - R ), (D * Dp) ) > > This is (I believe) invalid; you always need swap to back your RAM with. Not technically (we've got ``lazy swap''), but in practice, yes, you should have more swap than RAM. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)