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From: michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Too much swap???
Date: 12 Dec 1995 06:33:03 GMT
Organization: HeadCandy Associates... Sweets for the lobes.
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Message-ID: <MICHAELV.95Dec11223303@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>
References: <4adhdf$ft9@itchy.itsnet.com> <4af2oq$790@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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In-reply-to: j@uriah.heep.sax.de's message of 10 Dec 1995 16:44:10 GMT
In article <4af2oq$790@uriah.heep.sax.de> j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:
blair@cyber-naut.com (Blair Schmittel) writes:
> I was wondering if there is such a thing as too much
> swap space with FreeBSD 2.1?
Only in the sentence: ``You cannot have too much swap space.''
:-)
> I was reading somewhere that too much swap slows down
> the system. Is this true?
Probably in the same way that too much disk space slows down a system.
No way.
Yeah, just like that.
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Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com
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