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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Path: sparky!uunet!sci34hub!gary
- From: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
- Subject: Re: How to determing the size of you swap space?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.145523.15175@sci34hub.sci.com>
- Reply-To: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
- Organization: SCI Systems, Inc., Huntsville, Al.
- References: <1eg9k5INNsuj@uwm.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 14:55:23 GMT
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- In article <1eg9k5INNsuj@uwm.edu> peter@miller.cs.uwm.edu (Peter J Diaz de Leon) writes:
- >When installing Unix, how does one determine the
- >size of the swap space? Also is it possible to
- >figure out once you have allocated swap space
- >how much of it is being used?
-
- I was told that the swap space should be at least as large as your main
- memory, and more wouldn't hurt.
-
- Swap usage can be checked with the swap command; see the manpage for options.
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