Date: Sat, 8 Feb 1997 01:27:07 GMT From: mark@putte.seeware.DIALix.oz.au (Mark Hannon) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can Linux/FreeBSD share swap? Message-ID: <E59G18.43K.L.doorway@seeware.DIALix.oz.au> References: <9702070015.AA02844@gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com>
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In article <Pine.BSI.3.94.970206225742.777D-100000@localhost>, dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu (Doug White) writes: > On Thu, 6 Feb 1997, Marty Leisner wrote: > >> > > I was wondering if Linux (RedHat 4.0, kernel 2.0.25) and FreeBSD (2.1.6 >> > > or 2.2) could share a swap partition. > Sorry can't answer this. >> >> What I would like is not to insist on swap when I install (on machines with >> >16 Mbyte of ram, its reasonable not to have to make a swap parititon). > > As long as you don't run, say, Xwindows. If I ran anything above X and 3 > xterms, I swapped on 16mb. I upgraded to 32mb; I can get it to swap > *occaisionally*. > I have a 32MB machine, it runs CDE, Xaccel & it swaps more than occasionally. I have found that 3 times the physical memory seems to be about right for swap size dimensions. I have 100MB swap and it is being well used right now.... putte:~> pstat -s Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type /dev/wd0s1b 102400 76912 25424 75% Interleaved The biggest users are Xaccell (10M), Xemacs (12M), Netscape (10M) Rgds/Mark -- +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ | Mark Hannon,| FreeBSD, Free Unix for your PC | mark@seeware.DIALix.oz.au| | Melbourne, | PGP key available by fingering | epamha@epa.ericsson.se | | Australia | seeware@melbourne.DIALix.oz.au | | +-=-=-=-=-=-=-+-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+
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