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- From: jdell@nefertiti.mit.edu (John Ellithorpe)
- Subject: Re: Swap Space Question
- In-Reply-To: dbd@urartu.sdpa.org's message of Sat, 23 Jan 1993 07:19:28 GMT
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 18:16:48 GMT
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- On Sat, 23 Jan 1993 07:19:28 GMT, dbd@urartu.sdpa.org (David Davidian) said:
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- > This a quick question regarding swap space. I have a SPARC 1, with 8 meg RAM,
- > and certainly need more to give X Windows breathing space. I have about 22 meg
- > of swap space, and want to go to 16 Meg of RAM. Theoretically, I should only
- > need a bit more than 16 meg of swap space on disk. Question: Is 22 meg enough
- > swap space for a 16 meg RAM system? (I would rather not re-partition the disks
- > for more space unless I have to).
-
- Well, I think the real answer to that question is, you need the swap space as
- big as you require. Not much of an answer, but let me explain. If you are
- using your SPARC to check mail and editing and other tasks which don't require
- crunching on large amounts of data, then your system is probably okay.
-
- On our system, we require large amounts of data to be crunched and run
- programs which are quite large. So to be safe, we have our SPARCs with
- 100 MB of swap.
-
- You should find out if processes are running out of memory.
-
- Hope this helps,
-
- John
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