From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 29 07:52:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA03620 for current-outgoing; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 07:52:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA03559 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 07:52:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id QAA23794 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 16:51:39 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id QAA07380 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 16:51:39 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id QAA05202 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 16:31:39 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199610291531.QAA05202@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Request to add this to FAQ re: swap space To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 16:31:39 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: <199610290853.DAA03148@dyson.iquest.net> from "John S. Dyson" at "Oct 29, 96 03:53:51 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As John S. Dyson wrote: > The issue is that there are alot of individuals who run X in 16-32MB and > will complain if they cannot have 20-30 X applications running (perhaps > inactive, on swap space.) You can easily run out of swap space in that You mean people like me? j@ida 834% swapinfo -k Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type /dev/sd0b 153600 60280 93256 39% Interleaved j@ida 835% ps -alx|wc -l 92 The machine has 32 MB RAM, so i would be close to be out of swap if i had only 2 x RAM. :-) The above is likely to become even worse if somebody starts printing PostScript... the ghostscript runs on my machine, too. I usually almost don't notice this though. Besides, that's a typical situation where it's perfectly possible to start burning a CD-R, too. :-) (This runs with team(1) allocating 5 MB userland cache.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)