From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Feb 18 1:55:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from blueyonder.co.uk (pcow034o.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.53.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C9AB37B41A for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 01:55:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from pcow034o.blueyonder.co.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Mon, 18 Feb 2002 09:54:13 +0000 Received: from fluoxetine.lan (unverified [62.31.193.116]) by pcow034o.blueyonder.co.uk (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.9) with ESMTP id for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 09:54:13 +0000 Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 09:55:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Andrew McKay X-X-Sender: andy@fluoxetine.lan To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mistype in the documentation not sure where to send it In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020217205849.00b52c10@email.uc.edu> Message-ID: <20020218093316.X59897-101000@fluoxetine.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="0-1899371340-1014026121=:59897" Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. Send mail to mime@docserver.cac.washington.edu for more info. --0-1899371340-1014026121=:59897 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Jonathan Stewart wrote: > of an art. A good rule of > thumb is that you should > have two or three times the > amount of RAM as [you have] swap To me this reads most readily as my [addition] above suggests and as this submission is also pointing out. Either way it's ambiguous although the true meaning is clarified by the example which follows. I would rephrase this as: "A good rule of thumb is to set the amount of swap equal to two or three times the amount of RAM installed." Patch attached (aa: http://www.openirc.co.uk/freebsd as top link). Use it or lose it. I think it's a worthwhile change but not exactly urgent. Andy -- Andrew McKay --0-1899371340-1014026121=:59897 Content-Type: APPLICATION/x-gunzip; name="swap.diff.gz" Content-Transfer-Encoding: BASE64 Content-ID: <20020218095521.C59897@fluoxetine.lan> Content-Description: patch to handbook/install/chapter.sgml Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="swap.diff.gz" H4sICJrMcDwAA3N3YXAuZGlmZgCNUrtOwzAUnZuvOBtDSJWYCpUKoQISWxdg YbxpL7WFY4f4hqp/j+MA5SVBFiu+5+VjF0WBtaZWuJuGbWMndyS44RpQqNSi mi+qGVRZqizP8y/IqePdZOVdQldzlGeLmVqUakQvlyiUqsrjOfK3dbnMkGGC 9J2zk25/cd5SRxf3mhH2Qbg5Cgg7ahFaWjNMwBO3gmgiOv5EsBgx3k2jThS6 1t4H47ZxyujMVguo8b2LjMfPOmtyqBmE2qQRuawY+FFuClxi6/0GXW95GIru m3qwFh2r2PseQfvebqDphSE7D9+NdNEdxx3TcEgJDt63lyvQ56NEmzsP85j0 BqEs/0cAj8DyTXrQHMn83JMdQGOmP+IYF4Ss5c3PKKnL09nq6h0b2e7HyWuW Hcf9Ss0jktwG1dnpyBkyvV3Jw4FFNviRGnu0TEE+TAbCMcIvMSyH1LzDiToE MilOh7Vv2j4+wDHhezmpklflxurXyQIAAA== --0-1899371340-1014026121=:59897-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message