Date: 11 Aug 1999 18:29:16 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: John Sconiers <jrs@enteract.com> Cc: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, "Childers, Richard" <RCHILDER@hamquist.com>, "'H. Eckert '" <ripley@nostromo.in-berlin.de>, "'freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG '" <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 4 Swap partitions limit (was Re: RE: Little question (offtopic)) Message-ID: <xzp4si6uvqb.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: John Sconiers's message of "Wed, 11 Aug 1999 11:10:21 -0500 (CDT)" References: <Pine.NEB.3.96.990811110026.21362A-100000@shell-2.enteract.com>
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John Sconiers <jrs@enteract.com> writes: > I don't know your configuration but I had a PII-400 with 4 UW-SCSI drives > and 256 MB ram running -current. I dedicated 3 256MB swap partitions > (over 3 drives). The machine was used a test box. It ran 1 test database > instance and was used to compile source for ports, kernels, make world, > nfs shares, etc. Averaged 3 users with multiple terminal sessions. > Never (almost never) used the swap partitions. The only cases in which I've ever actually used swap on a box with 128 MB RAM or more are: - make world with a large number of concurrent jobs - Netscape going haywire and growing to > 500 MB before dumping core - machine-assisted error correction of large OCRed documents (the PGP source code, to be precise) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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