From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 12 12:10:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA21330 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 12:10:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gri.gallaudet.edu (flatline@gri.gallaudet.edu [134.231.10.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA21317 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 12:10:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from flatline@gri.gallaudet.edu) Received: from localhost (flatline@localhost) by gri.gallaudet.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA16482 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 15:07:03 -0500 Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 15:07:03 -0500 (EST) From: Uncle Flatline To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: With 80MB RAM, is (2*RAM) swap still reasonable? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Organization: The Sprawl MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 | 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