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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.zeitgeist.net!news.pixi.com!usenet From: rjh@pacinfo.net (R J Huntington) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD a memory hog ? Date: 3 Apr 1996 23:00:31 GMT Organization: Pacific Information Exchange Inc Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4juvuf$5ge@rigel.pixi.com> References: <dkleinh.828415914@isotope.ps.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: romulus.pixi.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Keywords: FreeBSD, memory usage X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 In article <dkleinh.828415914@isotope.ps.uci.edu>, dkleinh@isotope.ps.uci.edu propones... > > I am running FreeBSD 2.1 on a P-100 with 16MB ram and 16MB swap. When I >run netscape, after awhile, netscape is killed by the kernel with the message >that the swap space is exhausted. I also have Linux and I have never had >netscape crash due to insufficient memory on Linux. I have the same amount >of swap when I run Linux and about the same number of processes. I thought >FreeBSD had better memory management than Linux. I used to run Linux with >only 8-MB ram and never had it kill netscape. Where is all the memory going ? The rule of thumb I have always used is to make swap = RAM x 2 which would mean a 32 MB swap space in your case. I have no problem with this. I have actually made the 32 MB swap a minimum for my systems, even when running 8 MB RAM, which I no longer do. However, when I did run 8 megs, the 32 MB swap worked fine.