From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 20 09:49:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA24000 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 09:49:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ian.iafrica.com (root@ian.iafrica.com [196.31.1.15]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA23966 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 09:48:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ian.iafrica.com (khetan@ian.iafrica.com [196.31.1.15]) by ian.iafrica.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA27007; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 18:48:20 +0200 (SAT) Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 18:48:19 +0200 (SAT) From: Khetan Gajjar To: Nate Williams cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: swap problem - more information In-Reply-To: <199606201348.HAA09514@rocky.sri.MT.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 20 Jun 1996, Nate Williams wrote: > file. The *real* problem is that you don't have enough memory. You I've got 32mb of physical ram - I dunno bout you, but I think that's enough for a machine for one person ? > can't expect a 4MB box to run decently given 64MB of processes, no It isn't a 4mb box. What gave you that idea ? > matter how much swap you give it. You're either going to have to buy > more memory or put up with a slow system which is doing more than it's > capable of. I mean, I've redone it now, and the swapping is slower on the vnconfig "drive" than on the swap partition - I mean, a *lot* slower. > However, on the bright side isn't it great that you *can* run 64MB of > processes on a 4MB system. It may be slow, but it does work. :) I installed FreeBSD on a 386sx-16 with 4 mb of RAM, and it made for a great web-server! However, my machine is a bit more than that, but not performing like it :-( --- Khetan Gajjar Visit at http://www.iafrica.com/~khetan/ UUNet-Internet Africa Operations help@iafrica.com or 0800-030-002