From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Feb 14 10:20:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA21441 for bugs-outgoing; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 10:20:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (root@mexico.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.253]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA21432 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 10:20:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (brasil.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.33]) by mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id TAA08553; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 19:20:26 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (8.8.4/8.6.12) with UUCP id TAA28050; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 19:20:22 +0100 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.5/keltia-uucp-2.9) id TAA23774; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 19:15:16 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <19970214191516.ZB28043@keltia.freenix.fr> Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 19:15:16 +0100 From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) To: dg@root.com Cc: bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: swap problems References: <19970214152842.WO21409@keltia.freenix.fr> <199702141623.IAA17933@root.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60,1-3,9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT ctm#2999 In-Reply-To: <199702141623.IAA17933@root.com>; from David Greenman on Feb 14, 1997 08:23:42 -0800 Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to David Greenman: > This isn't true. The total amount of memory in FreeBSD is physical memory > plus swap. It's a good idea to have swap at least as large as physical memory, > however, and usually much larger (2-4 times). I've always thought this was one of the main differences between VM like our own (and SunOS' one) and Linux... Sorry. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #39: Sun Feb 2 22:12:44 CET 1997