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From: gryphon@msgi.com (Coranth Gryphon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How many swap for FreeBSD ??
Date: 2 Aug 1995 08:42:38 -0400
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David O'Brien <dobrien@seas.gwu.edu> wrote:
>Acutally, both of you are right.  The 2*RAM is crap.  In the older days
...
>doesn't help much.  What would be nice, like suggested above, for people
>to give their experiences rather than an "play with it your self".

Both home and work systems have 16MB Ram. I run 64MB Swap on the
home system, and 96MB on the work (software developement) system.
Anything less occasionally causes swap problems.

Note that I do NOT use X.

-coranth

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