Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 13:41:53 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: Bill Fumerola <billf@jade.chc-chimes.com> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4 Swap partitions limit (was Re: RE: Little question (offtopic)) Message-ID: <19990811134152.D2750@futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908111249280.85145-100000@jade.chc-chimes.com>; from Bill Fumerola on Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 12:51:10PM -0400 References: <xzp4si6uvqb.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908111249280.85145-100000@jade.chc-chimes.com>
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[Moved to -chat and CC's trimmed , this isn't -security fodder by a long shot] On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 12:51:10PM -0400, a little birdie told me that Bill Fumerola remarked > On 11 Aug 1999, 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: > > - Opening a 120 meg mailfile with pine > - Opening that same mail file in pine and trying '20000G ; dG' > > Both of the above operations destoryed 128M of RAM + 256M swapfile. - Running 35+ xterms with 25+ Netscrape windows - Adding 2 MySQL daemons and misc other long-running mem-use-varying processes - Mutt/Pine/Vi'ing several 400+ meg files - Running Perl scripts that touch multiple hundreds of megs of RAM - Then entering the second hour of uptime ;) (Running -CURRENT. Avg uptime: 2 weeks (interrupted by make worlds)) -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Unix Systems Administrator | fullermd@futuresouth.com Specializing in FreeBSD | http://www.over-yonder.net/ FutureSouth Communications | ISPHelp ISP Consulting "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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