Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 16:31:39 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: Request to add this to FAQ re: swap space Message-ID: <199610291531.QAA05202@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199610290853.DAA03148@dyson.iquest.net> from "John S. Dyson" at "Oct 29, 96 03:53:51 am"
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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. ;-)
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