Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 10:39:00 -0500 (EST) From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> To: Bob Willcox <bob@luke.pmr.com> Cc: chat list <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Linux faster thasn FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.A41.3.95.970923103235.28534A-100000@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> In-Reply-To: <19970923102645.60062@pmr.com>
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I think John Dyson once said that you had to have at least the same swap space as memory in your box. So your observation is absolutely logical. I thought the same once, but nothing irregular has ever happened on my home box. I only have 12M and although my box ran out of processes while building three ports at the same time, it has never really falled back. Hmm... if it shouldn't be done, perhaps it should be changed in the Handbook? :-) Pedro. On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Bob Willcox wrote: > On Tue, Sep 23, 1997 at 09:18:38AM -0500, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > > I suggest you rebuild the kernel and use the memory filesystem (mfs) as > > swap disk. If it's your personal box (not many users) this won't give any > > problem. > > This sounds awfully circular (and dangerous) to me. What happens when > the mfs daemon needs to page out something? Does the system fail? Is > the failure gracefull? > > -- > Bob Willcox Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread > bob@luke.pmr.com to determine which side it is buttered on. > Austin, TX -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" >
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