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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!bcm!aio!u1k56 From: u1k56@space.link.com (Jeffrey R Lang) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: stock 0.1 swap not enough. Keywords: swap Message-ID: <1992Aug3.175906.23395@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> Date: 3 Aug 1992 17:59:06 GMT References: <BsDzMo.1ru@chinet.chi.il.us> Sender: news@aio.jsc.nasa.gov (USENET News System) Organization: CAE-Link, Houston, TX Lines: 27 In article <BsDzMo.1ru@chinet.chi.il.us> randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess) writes: > > Well, I now have proof that the stock 5 meg swap partition > created with the 0.1 install disk is not enough. I added > a second disk and gave it another 5 megs of swap (I have > 8 megs memory) using swapon. I then compiled libc, and > during the ar phase (after creating all the .po's) the > second drive started blinking like mad. Also during the > nroff -mandoc of the man files. The compile did finish. > Any idea on what the recommended total swap size for > 8 megs and 16 megs of memory is? > >-- > I am created Shiva the Destroyer; Death, the shatterer of worlds! > Who is this dog meat who stands before me now? > That's the biz, sweetheart. >Randy Suess randy@chinet.chi.il.us On Sun/OS derived from BSD software, it is recommened that you allocate at least: 2 * Physical_memory + 10% Jeff Lang CAE-Link jlang@space.link.com