From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 6 22: 8:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from windmill-en0.garlic.com (windmill-en0.garlic.com [208.195.160.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5903037B416 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 22:08:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from blah (171.sm7.dialup.garlic.net [216.139.3.171]) by windmill-en0.garlic.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g1768bP60218 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 22:08:38 -0800 From: "Remington" To: Subject: Swap Space?????? Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 22:08:25 -0800 Message-ID: <000201c1af9d$e2adc5d0$ab038bd8@blah> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What exactly is the purpose of swap space? I heard swap space size should be equal to the amount of RAM so mine is 524MB, but its never used. I use top and it ALWAYS at around 6KB in use Windows, not worth the CD its burned on. -Remington To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message