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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uhog.mit.edu!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!tk2x+ From: Timothy J Kniveton <tim+@CMU.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: swap space Date: Mon, 5 Sep 1994 18:09:56 -0400 Organization: Sophomore, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 5 Message-ID: <MiOtQoG00bk2B2MGdZ@andrew.cmu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: po2.andrew.cmu.edu how much swap space is normal? the formula in install recommended >80M for 20M of RAM. i used 40M. will that be a reasonably fast amount, good for X? (this is a 486DX2/66 w/ EISA SCSI)