From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Aug 11 11:42:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [198.78.58.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEDDB155A8 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 11:42:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fullermd@futuresouth.com) Received: (from fullermd@localhost) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA05264; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 13:41:53 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 13:41:53 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Bill Fumerola Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4 Swap partitions limit (was Re: RE: Little question (offtopic)) Message-ID: <19990811134152.D2750@futuresouth.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: ; from Bill Fumerola on Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 12:51:10PM -0400 X-OS: FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [Moved to -chat and CC's trimmed , this isn't -security fodder by a long shot] 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)) -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Unix Systems Administrator | fullermd@futuresouth.com Specializing in FreeBSD | http://www.over-yonder.net/ FutureSouth Communications | ISPHelp ISP Consulting "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message