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On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Jamil J. Weatherbee wrote:

> Does anybody have any statistics on memory vs. performance as you go to
> large memory configurations (>64MB), also what is the biggest RAM
> configuration possible on a FreeBSD machine?
> 
> Kind of something like:
> 
> RAM for x USERS for x MEAN PROCESSES vs x DISK ACCESS

  That is impossible given your specifications.  For example, what is a
"user"?  What does this "user" do?  What are these "processes", and what
do they do?

Tom