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Date:      Wed, 11 Feb 1998 10:25:44 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "John S. Dyson" <dyson@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Byoung-Kee Yi <kee@wam.umd.edu>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Trivial Question on Virtual Memory
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980211102524.1284G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199802110416.XAA07995@dyson.iquest.net>

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On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, John S. Dyson wrote:

> Byoung-Kee Yi said:
> > Hi there -
> > 
> > I'm a little bit confused about the size of virual memory.
> > Is it (RAM size + swap size) or max(RAM, swap)?
> > That is, does just adding more RAMs increase the total
> > virtual memory size, or should I also increase the swap
> > partition?
> > 
> Your total available virtual mem is essentially the size
> of your swap space only.  However, you can often get by
> with less.  It is best to plan ahead, and allocate enough
> swap.

And buy lots of RAM to avoid using that swap :-)

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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