From owner-freebsd-current Sun Apr 5 17:20:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA29589 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 17:20:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA29500; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 17:19:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA01708; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 19:19:42 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199804060019.TAA01708@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: swap-leak in 2.2.5 ? In-Reply-To: from =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag=2DErling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav?= at "Apr 6, 98 01:22:46 am" To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1998 19:19:42 -0500 (EST) Cc: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, dswartz@druber.com, dg@root.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > "John S. Dyson" writes: > > On my workstation, I run with 1.2GB of available swap space, and anybody > > can afford that, can't they? (BTW, I seldom use more than 30-40MB, but > > with the price of disk, who cares?) > > I only have 512 MB (out of 9 GB of disk space) but then again I have > 128 MB RAM, so I practically never use any swap at all, except > possibly while making world. On my laptop, however, I only have 16 MB > RAM (should have been 32, but Big Three-Letter Computer Company (tm) > screwed up and I'm still waiting for the missing RAM) so swap space > gets eaten up PDQ. > You have a system that will be robust under various conditions. It is an investment in a future with minimal trouble, if people would only config their systems like you do in that regard. John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message