Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 18:37:54 -0400 (EDT) From: -Vince- <vince@penzance.econ.yale.edu> To: Brian Gottlieb <brian@arl.wustl.edu> Cc: Gary Palmer <gary@palmer.demon.co.uk>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade to my machine Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950823183620.3064F-100000@penzance.econ.yale.edu> In-Reply-To: <9508231447.AA01604@beru.wustl.edu>
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On Wed, 23 Aug 1995, Brian Gottlieb wrote: > > -Vince- <vince@penzance.econ.yale.edu> (Vince) writes: > > >> freefall has 64Mb of swap on each of 3 drives. wcarchive has 200Mb on > >> each of 4 drives (total 800Mb) > > Vince> That's pretty big for a swap partitions... > > It all depends on what you're doing with it. In my machine at work I > have a 400 meg drive dedicated to swap. The circuit synthesis and > simulations we run here need LOTS of memory and swap. The "big" > machines in our group have 256M of memory and a 1 Gig swap drive. Hmmm, is there like a way to do well with a big swap and like 16 megs of physical memory? How much physical memory is on the machine with 400 meg swap? > I suppose splitting the large swap-space over 4 disks is probably much > more efficient than having just a single big (and, might I add, LOUD) > disk, but then who wants to be efficient? ;) I guess it would be since it would put less demand on the single disk ;) Cheers, -Vince- vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu - GUS Mailing Lists Admin UCLA Physics/Electrical Engineering - UC Berkeley Fall '95 SysAdmin bigbang.HIP.Berkeley.EDU - Running FreeBSD, Real UN*X for Free! Chabot Observatory & Science Center
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