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From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
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On Sun, 30 Mar 1997, jadeite wrote:

> what is the rule of thumb for configuring the sizes of the SWAP, /, and
> /var filesystems?
> what types of programs use the SWAP a lot?
> 
> 

For / and /var, the rule of thumb depends on what you do. For /, you can 
probably get along with a couple of tens on MB. I usually put 20-40MB for /.

For /var, it depends. What goes in there is normally the mail spool, logs 
from all your daemons and, if you have a news server, the news spool. 
News can take multiple GBs for /var. For the rest, it depends mainly on 
how much mail/logs you expect to have. If you have a web/ftp sites with 
hundreds of thousands of hits aday and you log it all, it can also sum up 
to handreds of MBs for a couple of weeks. Other then that there's very 
little that goes in there, so a small personal workstation can get along 
with ~16MB.

For swap, the main consumers are:
Netscape
gcc
(x)emacs
X11
anything complicated and big

Nadav