Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 15:07:03 -0500 (EST) From: Uncle Flatline <flatline@gri.gallaudet.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: With 80MB RAM, is (2*RAM) swap still reasonable? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980212144701.16448A-100000@gri.gallaudet.edu> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980212164144.potok@friko.onet.pl>
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Hi, At the moment, the machine I subscribed from is down. Please CC responses to this address. I am wiping my hard disk and trying again... This time, I think I may risk 3.0-CURRENT, though I have enough time keeping up with THIS mailing list; dunno if I wanna suffer with a -current mailing list too! I have 80 MB RAM, and a 1.2 GB hard disk. During the install, the auto- matic partitioning/slicing suggests a 169 MB swap. Is this reasonable? The machine is primarily a single user machine, but I do serve a handful of web pages and a few FTP files. (I also like to serve up NFS and SAMBA style connections, but to a very small audience.) I also hope to set the machine up as a single-user ISP providing me with a PPP server that I can dial into from home. There's a second disk in the machine with Lose95, since that's what the rest of my office uses, and it's good for Myst and Riven. ;-) I want X Windows and maybe a game or two, but I'm not game-crazy. Fortran 77, C/C++, Perl, Java, Tcl/Tk and database support (Postgres? mSQL? I dunno: I'm new to this stuff) would be nice too. Maybe Forth. During the install, I'll probably go nuts and install too much. I don't WANT TeX or emacs, but so much seems to depend on these two. Many of the other programs/ports/ packages always look interesting, but I don't have enough info to evaluate them. Thanks for any responses. -- Kevin Cole <Flatline> | E-mail: flatline@gri.gallaudet.edu Gallaudet Research Institute | WWW: http://pchb1f.gallaudet.edu/ Hall Memorial Bldg S-419 | Voice: (202) 651-5135 Washington, D.C. 20002-3695 | FAX: (202) 651-5746 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message
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