From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 16 11:31: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from linux.ssc.nsu.ru (linux.ssc.nsu.ru [193.124.219.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AE54D37B719 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 11:30:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from danfe@inet.ssc.nsu.ru) Received: (qmail 12994 invoked from network); 16 Mar 2001 19:30:46 -0000 Received: from inet.ssc.nsu.ru (62.76.110.12) by hub.freebsd.org with SMTP; 16 Mar 2001 19:30:46 -0000 Received: from localhost (danfe@localhost) by inet.ssc.nsu.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA04790 for ; Sat, 17 Mar 2001 01:30:37 +0600 Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 01:30:37 +0600 (NOVT) From: Alexey Dokuchaev To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Swap strategy Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello there, There are discussions going on linuxish kernel maillists with regard to their new 2.4-kernel swap memory usage, which actually seems kinda, uhm, at least strange to me... Anyway, I don't really care, since I use much better OS, FreeBSD :-) and I have a question with regards to FreBSD swap strategy. Say if I have Cel-600 with 128M RAM (rather average these days), and use my box primarily for web programming and design, thus I very likely be having to run XFree86-4, pretty heavy mozilla + netscape (I know netscape sux, but I need to make sure my sites look the same in both browsers) + gimp), and I use windowmaker (it rocks!) as my window manager. I also might have to run apache on that box. So, considering all the above, how much of a swap space do I need? 10x for your answers! -- With all the best regards, -= Alexey Dokuchaev aka DAN Fe =- [Team Assembler] [Team BSD] [Team DooM] [Team Quake] Macintosh: You think it will work, but it doesn't Windows: You think it won't work, and it doesn't Unix: You think it won't work, but if you find the right guru he'll make it work -- Philip Greenspun To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message