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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message
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