From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Sep 27 00:11:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA05154 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 00:11:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ingenieria ([168.176.15.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id AAA05146 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 00:11:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from unalmodem.usc.unal.edu.co by ingenieria (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id CAA06308; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 02:57:58 -0400 Message-ID: <342CC8BB.7DE1@asme.org> Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 01:50:03 -0700 From: "Pedro Giffuni S," Organization: Universidad Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold [it] (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: chat list Subject: Re: Linux faster thasn FreeBSD References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. >