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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!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!newsgate.duke.edu!godot.cc.duq.edu!newsfeed.pitt.edu!dsinc!news.acsu.buffalo.edu!news.drenet.dnd.ca!crc-news.doc.ca!nott!hone!informer1.cis.McMaster.CA!church.dcss!church.dcss!not-for-mail From: dsantry@church.dcss.McMaster.CA (Douglas Santry) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD memory requirement Date: 20 Jun 1996 11:07:41 -0400 Organization: Computer Science & Systems, McMaster University Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4qbpft$6g1@church.dcss.McMaster.CA> References: <Pine.SOL.3.93.960619222235.20516E-100000@bmec.hscbklyn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: church.dcss.mcmaster.ca In article <Pine.SOL.3.93.960619222235.20516E-100000@bmec.hscbklyn.edu>, David Zakai <zakaid99@hscbklyn.edu> wrote: > >Basic question: will I benefit from adding more memory >than I have now? Oh yea. Last weekend I upgraded my machine to 48 megs. It hasn't paged *once*. Not a single bytes of swap has been used. I run X/fvwm emacs and big compiles, view movies with xanim, and not a single page has been written to swap! My friend has a 64Meg machine running Solaris and after booting and logging in, he haas ~500 free pages free while I have 9500! FreeBSD is a lean efficent creature lemme tell you! DJS