From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 10 18:54:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA16103 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 10 May 1998 18:54:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA16079 for ; Sun, 10 May 1998 18:54:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id LAA08030; Mon, 11 May 1998 11:24:02 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980511112402.N7546@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 11:24:02 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: William Woods Cc: Andrew Short , FreeBSD Questions Mailing List Subject: Re: Swap space. References: <19980511105643.L7546@freebie.lemis.com> <3556591F.68343160@cybcon.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <3556591F.68343160@cybcon.com>; from William Woods on Sun, May 10, 1998 at 06:49:19PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 10 May 1998 at 18:49:19 -0700, William Woods wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: > >> No, it depends on your usage. I often use in excess of 200 MB of swap >> on a (currently) 96 MB machine. >> > > Gotta ask.....200+mog swap used doin what??? I got 128 Meg Ram and 256 meg swap > and I think that I have overkill. A lot of things at once, including running two high-resolution monitors. A typical heavy user of swap space is xv doing large graphics images. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message