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- Subject: Re: How Big a Perm. Swapfile?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.215559.29954@datamark.co.nz>
- From: thomas@datamark.co.nz (Thomas Beagle)
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 21:55:59 GMT
- References: <1993Jan1.011819.19128@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan1.011819.19128@midway.uchicago.edu> gmf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >My computer: 386sx 16mhz, 4 megs ram, DOs 5.0, win 3.1.
- >Any help would be greatly appreciated! (Email would be great too)
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- General rule of thumb, the swapfile shouldn't be more than twice the
- available physical ram. Of course, in most cases this rule will be
- bullshit, but at least it's a start.
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- Anyway, in your case I would use an 8MB swapfile. See how that goes
- for a while. If you run out of RAM a lot, increase it.
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