Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 01:50:03 -0700 From: "Pedro Giffuni S," <giffunip@asme.org> To: chat list <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Linux faster thasn FreeBSD Message-ID: <342CC8BB.7DE1@asme.org> References: <Pine.A41.3.95.970923103235.28534A-100000@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>
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Is the swap space calculated during installation based on the memory available, or is it a rough (but changeable) estimate for everyone? Hmm..I lost John Dyson's recent posting...anyway, I recently discovered lmbench causes some core dumps when mfs is used as explained in the handbook (Well, yes I only have 12M but X was not running). Pedro. Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > > I think John Dyson once said that you had to have at least the same swap > space as memory in your box. So your observation is absolutely logical. > > I thought the same once, but nothing irregular has ever happened on my > home box. I only have 12M and although my box ran out of processes > while building three ports at the same time, it has never really falled > back. > > Hmm... if it shouldn't be done, perhaps it should be changed in the > Handbook? :-) > > Pedro. >
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