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From: netcom@ix.netcom.com (Netcom user)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.2 GAMMA 2/5 results in SWAP FULL?
Date: 12 Feb 1997 05:02:39 GMT
Organization: Netcom
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In article <5dqqo2$bhf@bofh.noc.best.net>,
rone@bofh.noc.best.net (Ron Echeverri) writes:
> In article <m267zzxceb.fsf@golfgod.raleigh.ibm.com>,
> Thomas Evans <tjevans@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>Ran it for about 2 days, SWAP went full (I have 32M real, 20M swap),
>>I killed everything (X, xfmail, emacs, etc etc) but top would show
>
> You're running X and emacs with only 20M swap? You're certainly
> brave. The recommended amount of swap is 2 * RAM. I run Netscape, so
> i have to take an extra 30-40MB of swap for that alone.
hmmm...I'm running netscape, knews, xfmail, X/fvwm, xplaycd, 5 xterms, and
my Linux box shows a mere 312K used, I've recompile the kernel to take out
drivers I didn't need and decrease the number of users back down to 10
(from 50).
Regards,
--
Tom Evans tjevans@hotmail.com