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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!nbn!hilbert.dnai.com!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!ensta!itesec!sidhe.frmug.fr.net!not-for-mail From: roberto@hsc.fr.net (Ollivier Robert) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: swap space Date: 6 Sep 1994 11:20:52 +0200 Organization: Herve Schauer Consultants, Paris, France Lines: 14 Message-ID: <34hc9k$pb@sidhe.hsc-sec.fr> References: <MiOtQoG00bk2B2MGdZ@andrew.cmu.edu> Reply-To: roberto@hsc.fr.net (Ollivier Robert) NNTP-Posting-Host: sidhe.hsc-sec.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <MiOtQoG00bk2B2MGdZ@andrew.cmu.edu>, Timothy J Kniveton <tim+@CMU.EDU> wrote: > 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? It depends on what you'll be running under X... With 20 MB RAM, 40 MB shold be enough for most things. -- Ollivier ROBERT roberto@hsc.fr.net Hervé Schauer Consultants Ollivier.Robert@sidhe.frmug.fr.net PERL / MIME / PGP / 4.4BSD SunOS sidhe.frmug.fr.net 4.1.3 1 sparcbook