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- From: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy))
- Subject: Re: swapfile lowat?
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- In-reply-to: drm@esl.com's message of 5 Jan 93 18:33:47 GMT
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- Date: 5 Jan 93 23:15:09 GMT
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- In article <1899@esl.ESL.COM> drm@esl.com (Don McGregor) writes:
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- ??? I recently upped my physical memory to 32 MB. I vaugely recall someone
- ??? suggesting that the swapfile should be at least as large as the physical
- ??? memory. NeXT has a default lowat of 20 MB.
- ???
- ??? Should I increase the lowat to 32 MB?
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- This does not seem necessary, since the swapfile will grow
- automatically. You will probably have very little swapping (except if
- you use Mathematica). You may, however, want to increase your hiwat
- if you have set it.
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- Hardy
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