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- From: 5692330@mcimail.com (Robert Gammon)
- Subject: Re: Does anyone know...Swap File
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- References: <1993Jan4.185513.15544@apgea.army.mil> <Gary.Woodman.905.726283143@anu.edu.au> <1993Jan06.162100.29821@watson.ibm.com> <1993Jan6.211403.29036@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 23:01:02 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan6.211403.29036@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
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- >> In article <1993Jan06.162100.29821@watson.ibm.com> cnadler@vnet.ibm.com (Cliff Nadler) writes:
- >> >Actually, you can control it's existence by the MEMMAN parameter. If you make
- >> >it NOSWAP, it will only use the real memory in your system. However, if you
- >> >run out of memory, you're in trouble. Since most systems use the swapper (even
- >> >mine with 14Mb), you can run out of room real quick.
- >>
- >> I'd recommend not using NOSWAP unless you have a MINIMUM of 20MB of
- >> memory. I have 8MB of RAM, and my swapfile typically varies between
- >> 6MB and 10MB, occasionally spiking to 12MB. This is having DINFO,
- >> CLOCK, ALARMS, Daily Planner, a windowed session, GNU-Emacs, GCC/2,
- >> and the Tooklit PM reference open and running at once.
- >>
- >> I'm running OS/2 2.0 at service level XR-6055.
-
- Also note that with swapping enabled, the minimum swapper.dat size appears to
- be 1MB. My SWAPPATH has initial swapper.dat size set to 512KB, but it
- always gets created at 1MB. In the environment that I run in, I won't
- consider turning off swapping with less than 24MB, and I consider that to be a
- dangerous level. I have 32MB on my system (HPFS cache = 64KB, I have
- cacheing disk controller too). Available memory hovers at 11-14KB most of
- the time, and I have seen it drop to 8MB. I am also running XR-6055.
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