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Date:      Wed, 9 Oct 1996 09:29:19 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users)
Cc:        danj@netcom.com
Subject:   Re: 961006-SNAP comments
Message-ID:  <199610090729.JAA25102@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199610090523.OAA13667@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Oct 9, 96 02:53:05 pm"

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As Michael Smith wrote:

> >    --- Calculate ---
> >  swap = max( ( T - R ), (D * Dp) )
> 
> This is (I believe) invalid; you always need swap to back your RAM with.

Not technically (we've got ``lazy swap''), but in practice, yes, you
should have more swap than RAM.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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