From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 7 18:10:55 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA25514 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 7 Jun 1995 18:10:55 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id SAA25508 for ; Wed, 7 Jun 1995 18:10:53 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA11191; Wed, 7 Jun 95 19:04:09 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9506080104.AA11191@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: Top To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Date: Wed, 7 Jun 95 19:04:09 MDT In-Reply-To: <199506072135.XAA12299@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jun 7, 95 11:35:56 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > (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.) Not always... just for execution off an NFS mounted volume, or for shutdown/resume capability. Like having a "shutdown" image at the "accept defaults?" prompt of a running installation process so install takes ~20 seconds to run from a CDROM: just "resume" it and hit return for non-net-connected installs. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.