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Date:      Wed, 28 Jan 1998 19:14:17 -0500 (EST)
From:      "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
To:        gmarco@scotty.masternet.it (Gianmarco Giovannelli)
Cc:        mcdougall@ameritech.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: swap_pager: suggest more swap space: 126 MB
Message-ID:  <199801290014.TAA01325@dyson.iquest.net>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980128223609.008579f0@scotty.masternet.it> from Gianmarco Giovannelli at "Jan 28, 98 10:36:09 pm"

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Gianmarco Giovannelli said:
> At 03:55 PM 28-01-98 -0500, Adam McDougall wrote:
> >I keep getting this message one or two times a day, on both my -current
> >systems, one a few days old build and the other a few weeks old.  It
> >does not seem to be true, since when I check my Swap when that message
> >is reported, I always have plenty free.. I did not get this message
> >before the code for insufficient swap was added... When I have 64 megs
> >of ram, do I really need 126mb swap when I rarely dip more than 10 megs
> >into swap?  The systems are used for personal use, one runs X, one
> >doesnt.  One is P120, 64mb edo, 50 some megs swap, slow scsi drives, the
> >other is p233mmx, 64mb sdram, 74M swap, EIDE hd.  WOuld any other
> >details he helpful?  Thanks in advance.
> 
> I think it is Netscape 4.04 that suggests it ...
> It happens to me too..
> 
You can ignore the message, but it is meant to be remind you that the
system might fail unnecessarily.  The system is evaluating that <potential>
swap requirements might be greater than available swap space.

-- 
John                  | Never try to teach a pig to sing,
dyson@freebsd.org     | it just makes you look stupid,
jdyson@nc.com         | and it irritates the pig.



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