From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 8 22:23:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA06992 for current-outgoing; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 22:23:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA06947 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 22:23:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id OAA13667; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 14:53:06 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199610090523.OAA13667@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: 961006-SNAP comments To: danj@netcom.com (Dan Janowski) Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 14:53:05 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <325B3053.167EB0E7@netcom.com> from "Dan Janowski" at Oct 9, 96 00:55:47 am 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 Dan Janowski stands accused of saying: > > Based on some "assumptions" we could have a formula: > > R = physical ram > > T = total memory size "useful" for a: minimal system, X system, > developer system ... > --- Calculate --- > swap = max( ( T - R ), (D * Dp) ) This is (I believe) invalid; you always need swap to back your RAM with. > Dan Janowski -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[