Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 09:11:41 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> To: fewtch@serv.net, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Some more OS comparisons... Win NT is a bloated pig :-) Message-ID: <199806241611.JAA08178@pau-amma.whistle.com>
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>Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 19:41:22 -0700 >From: Tim Gerchmez <fewtch@serv.net> >I have a triple boot system (Win95 OSR2, NT4 workstation and FreeBSD >2.2.6), so I thought I'd try a test... I set up only a 10 meg swap file >under Windows NT, even though it recommends 75 minimum. I have 64 megs of >RAM in my machine, so this gave NT 74 megs of RAM to play with.... I have no idea about the specifics of "Windows NT", but it may be useful to realize that some systems (such as SunOS 4.x) require what is called "backing store" -- that is, disk space allocated within the swap -- for any virtual storage used. That is one reason for the old "rule of thumb" with BSD systems (and SunOS 4.x was heavily BSD-based) that swap space should be (at least) 2x main storage. Some more modern systems do not have this requirement; for example, recent releases of Solaris 2.x specifically do not have the requirement... and, in fact, can be run with no disk set aside for swap space at all (given enough RAM). Cheers, david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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