From owner-freebsd-security Wed Aug 11 11:21:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.its.rpi.edu (mail1.its.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 521FE14E17 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 11:21:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail1.its.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA64172 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 14:21:05 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 14:21:20 -0400 To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: 4 Swap partitions limit (was Re: RE: Little question (offtopic)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 6:29 PM +0200 8/11/99, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: >The only cases in which I've ever actually used swap on a box with >128 MB RAM or more are: > > - make world with a large number of concurrent jobs > - Netscape going haywire and growing to > 500 MB before dumping core > - machine-assisted error correction of large OCRed documents (the PGP > source code, to be precise) I've seen swap used on my machine with 192 meg of RAM, and it wasn't due to an error condition or something going haywire. It just depended on what was running on that given machine. However, my guess is that the freebsd-security list does not need us all to talk about what machines we've seen in our lives, and how much swap they've used. It is probably a good time for this "little question (offtopic)" to die out or to move to some other mailing list... --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message