From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 30 08:08:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA29602 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 30 Mar 1997 08:08:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from light.pomona.edu (light.pomona.edu [134.173.72.79]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA29566 for ; Sun, 30 Mar 1997 08:08:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (jadeite@localhost) by light.pomona.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA13747 for ; Sun, 30 Mar 1997 08:07:59 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 08:07:57 -0800 (PST) From: jadeite To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk what is the rule of thumb for configuring the sizes of the SWAP, /, and /var filesystems? what types of programs use the SWAP a lot?