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Date:      Sat, 8 Feb 1997 01:27:07 GMT
From:      mark@putte.seeware.DIALix.oz.au (Mark Hannon)
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Can Linux/FreeBSD share swap?
Message-ID:  <E59G18.43K.L.doorway@seeware.DIALix.oz.au>
References:  <9702070015.AA02844@gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com>

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In article <Pine.BSI.3.94.970206225742.777D-100000@localhost>,
	dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu (Doug White) writes:
> On Thu, 6 Feb 1997, Marty Leisner wrote:
> 
>> > > I was wondering if Linux (RedHat 4.0, kernel 2.0.25) and FreeBSD (2.1.6
>> > > or 2.2) could share a swap partition.  
> 

Sorry can't answer this.

>> 
>> What I would like is not to insist on swap when I install (on machines with
>> >16 Mbyte of ram, its reasonable not to have to make a swap parititon).
> 
> As long as you don't run, say, Xwindows.  If I ran anything above X and 3
> xterms, I swapped on 16mb.  I upgraded to 32mb; I can get it to swap
> *occaisionally*.
> 

I have a 32MB machine, it runs CDE, Xaccel & it swaps more than
occasionally.  I have found that 3 times the physical memory seems
to be about right for swap size dimensions.  I have 100MB swap
and it is being well used right now....

putte:~> pstat -s
Device      1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Type
/dev/wd0s1b    102400    76912    25424    75%    Interleaved

The biggest users are Xaccell (10M), Xemacs (12M), Netscape (10M)

 
Rgds/Mark

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