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Date:      Mon, 11 May 1998 11:24:02 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        William Woods <wwoods@cybcon.com>
Cc:        Andrew Short <Ashort@concentric.net>, FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Swap space.
Message-ID:  <19980511112402.N7546@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <3556591F.68343160@cybcon.com>; from William Woods on Sun, May 10, 1998 at 06:49:19PM -0700
References:  <Pine.SUN.3.96.980510195852.14580H-100000@voyager.cris.com> <19980511105643.L7546@freebie.lemis.com> <3556591F.68343160@cybcon.com>

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On Sun, 10 May 1998 at 18:49:19 -0700, William Woods wrote:
> Greg Lehey wrote:
>
>> No, it depends on your usage.  I often use in excess of 200 MB of swap
>> on a (currently) 96 MB machine.
>>
>
> Gotta ask.....200+mog swap used doin what??? I got 128 Meg Ram and 256 meg swap
> and I think that I have overkill.

A lot of things at once, including running two high-resolution
monitors.  A typical heavy user of swap space is xv doing large
graphics images.

Greg
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