Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 10:21:52 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Uncle Flatline <flatline@gri.gallaudet.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: With 80MB RAM, is (2*RAM) swap still reasonable? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980216101836.10408G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980212144701.16448A-100000@gri.gallaudet.edu>
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On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Uncle Flatline wrote: > I have 80 MB RAM, and a 1.2 GB hard disk. During the install, the auto- > matic partitioning/slicing suggests a 169 MB swap. Is this reasonable? That might be a little big. I think there is some magic in 2*RAM in the VM system but John Dyson would have to confirm that. For a ref point I have an 100MB swap partition on 40MB of RAM, using 13% with X running. I made it big last time since I was anticipating memory upgrades and lots of X activity which tends to gobble swap quickly. This is on a 1080MB disk. When in doubt, you can't have too much swap. :-) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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