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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.stealth.net!zephyr.texoma.net!uunet!in3.uu.net!206.63.63.70!nwnews.wa.com!brokaw.wa.com!not-for-mail From: Dave DeLaune <javaman@halcyon.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2.2 GAMMA 2/5 results in SWAP FULL? Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 07:23:41 -0800 Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. Lines: 32 Message-ID: <3301E04A.41C67EA6@halcyon.com> References: <m267zzxceb.fsf@golfgod.raleigh.ibm.com> <5dqqo2$bhf@bofh.noc.best.net> <5dritf$a1j@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blv-pm105-ip11.halcyon.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-970205-GAMMA0 i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35603 Netcom user wrote: > > 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 After switching from Linux to FreeBSD :) I was surprised at the differences in swap sizes as well. However I have found that FreeBSD when given a lot of swap space to work with is more responsive than Linux under the same conditions. Some unices require more swap and manage it better. The AIX CAD box I use at work has 128 Megs of ram and 256 Megs of swap. ---------------------------------- David DeLaune javaman@halcyon.com ----------------------------------