From owner-freebsd-security Wed Aug 11 9:29:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A9DF14C59 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 09:29:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA13035; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 18:29:17 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des) To: John Sconiers Cc: "Matthew D. Fuller" , Matthew Dillon , "Childers, Richard" , "'H. Eckert '" , "'freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG '" Subject: Re: 4 Swap partitions limit (was Re: RE: Little question (offtopic)) References: From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 11 Aug 1999 18:29:16 +0200 In-Reply-To: John Sconiers's message of "Wed, 11 Aug 1999 11:10:21 -0500 (CDT)" Message-ID: Lines: 21 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org John Sconiers writes: > I don't know your configuration but I had a PII-400 with 4 UW-SCSI drives > and 256 MB ram running -current. I dedicated 3 256MB swap partitions > (over 3 drives). The machine was used a test box. It ran 1 test database > instance and was used to compile source for ports, kernels, make world, > nfs shares, etc. Averaged 3 users with multiple terminal sessions. > Never (almost never) used the swap partitions. The only cases in which I've ever actually used swap on a box with 128 MB RAM or more are: - make world with a large number of concurrent jobs - Netscape going haywire and growing to > 500 MB before dumping core - machine-assisted error correction of large OCRed documents (the PGP source code, to be precise) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message