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Date:      Wed, 11 Aug 1999 13:41:53 -0500
From:      "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>
To:        Bill Fumerola <billf@jade.chc-chimes.com>
Cc:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 4 Swap partitions limit (was  Re: RE: Little question (offtopic))
Message-ID:  <19990811134152.D2750@futuresouth.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908111249280.85145-100000@jade.chc-chimes.com>; from Bill Fumerola on Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 12:51:10PM -0400
References:  <xzp4si6uvqb.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908111249280.85145-100000@jade.chc-chimes.com>

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On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 12:51:10PM -0400, a little birdie told me
that Bill Fumerola remarked
> On 11 Aug 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> 
> > The only cases in which I've ever actually used swap on a box with
> > 128 MB RAM or more are:
> 
> - Opening a 120 meg mailfile with pine
> - Opening that same mail file in pine and trying '20000G ; dG'
> 
> Both of the above operations destoryed 128M of RAM + 256M swapfile.

- Running 35+ xterms with 25+ Netscrape windows
- Adding 2 MySQL daemons and misc other long-running mem-use-varying
processes
- Mutt/Pine/Vi'ing several 400+ meg files
- Running Perl scripts that touch multiple hundreds of megs of RAM
- Then entering the second hour of uptime  ;)

(Running -CURRENT.  Avg uptime: 2 weeks (interrupted by make worlds))



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