Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 14:34:29 GMT From: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> To: Steven G Kargl <kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, davidg@Root.COM Cc: phk@ref.tfs.com, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: install compressed binary patch Message-ID: <199503141434.OAA03371@deacon.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: Steven G Kargl's message of Mon, 13 Mar 1995 17:13:45 -0800 (PST)
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> Do you have some rule of thumb? I usually go with 2 * RAM, but if this > is not sufficient what is necessary. This and similar rules of thumb are the wrong way round. The amount of swap space you need is not determined by how much RAM you have! Rather, then amount of swap space is determined by what programs you want to run simultaneously, and you should have as much RAM as possible up to that amount. Of course, things will be slooow if you don't have enough RAM, so a rule of thumb might be to have at least half as much RAM as swap. But note that if you translate this to swap in terms if RAM, it says that 2 * RAM is a *maximum* amount of swap, not a minimum or a recommendation. -- Richard
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