Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 23:35:56 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Top Message-ID: <199506072135.XAA12299@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9506070344.A724-0100000@temptation.interlog.com> from "Temptation" at Jun 7, 95 04:08:09 am
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As Temptation wrote: > > > > If I read this correctly, you are saying you have 256 Megs of physical memory > > and 25 Megs of swap? Unless I am mistaken, this is your problem. [...] ... > well if thats true, it's stupid! Windows/NT/Warp do that also. > Linux doesn't tho. it only starts using the swap space if I use more > then 64meg. (There's a rule of thumb saying you should have 2 * RAM as swap size.) Don't let Terry know about your argumentation. :-) (He's always voting for `eager' swap, where all RAM has to be backed by swap space.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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