Date: Wed, 23 Aug 95 09:47:28 CDT From: Brian Gottlieb <brian@arl.wustl.edu> To: -Vince- <vince@penzance.econ.yale.edu> Cc: Gary Palmer <gary@palmer.demon.co.uk>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade to my machine Message-ID: <9508231447.AA01604@beru.wustl.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950822233012.3064F-100000@penzance.econ.yale.edu> References: <1651.808410899@palmer.demon.co.uk> <Pine.LNX.3.91.950822233012.3064F-100000@penzance.econ.yale.edu>
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-Vince- <vince@penzance.econ.yale.edu> (Vince) writes: >> freefall has 64Mb of swap on each of 3 drives. wcarchive has 200Mb on >> each of 4 drives (total 800Mb) Vince> That's pretty big for a swap partitions... It all depends on what you're doing with it. In my machine at work I have a 400 meg drive dedicated to swap. The circuit synthesis and simulations we run here need LOTS of memory and swap. The "big" machines in our group have 256M of memory and a 1 Gig swap drive. I suppose splitting the large swap-space over 4 disks is probably much more efficient than having just a single big (and, might I add, LOUD) disk, but then who wants to be efficient? ;) brian
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