From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 1 05:07:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA24718 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 05:07:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA24712 Thu, 1 Feb 1996 05:07:31 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.6.11/8.6.9) id CAA02109; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 02:45:03 GMT From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199602010245.CAA02109@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: Good news -- pipe stuff To: stesin@elvisti.kiev.ua (Andrew V. Stesin) Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 02:45:03 +0000 () Cc: dyson@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199602010644.IAA25708@office.elvisti.kiev.ua> from "Andrew V. Stesin" at Feb 1, 96 08:44:09 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > (Seen this, too -- but only in the presence of X server, rather annoying) > John Dyson writes than: > > : That problem has been fixed in -current, I believe. It was really starting > : to bug me :-). > > Please, please, please! Any chances of getting this (rather > critical) fix into 2.1 branch? > BDE says that the problem that I fixed might not be what you are seeing. I have started some discussions about it. DG will be involved also. This is appearing to be more of an issue than I had thought... I might have mislead you :-(. > > What are your opinions on adding the above suggestion somewhere into > the documentation for disk partitioning process? > Rules of thumb like 2x or 3x kind-of don't really model what is happening. A better model would be "sum up the size of all of the programs that you are running (including malloc areas, etc)". If that is bigger 2X the amount of memory that you are using, then that is how much swap space you need, otherwise 2X memory is a good bet. John