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- From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
- Subject: Re: SWAP size for 20MB IIci?
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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 11:18:22 GMT
-
- tody@noao.edu (Doug Tody) writes:
-
-
- >Well, of course. I was referring mainly to differences in how these systems
- >handle paging of virtual memory. UNIX systems use the swap area for paging
- >as well as swap; for a virtual memory system swapping and paging are closely
- >related. Most UNIX systems preallocate space in the swap area for paging
- >when memory is *allocated* by a process - whether or not the process has any
- >writable pages paged out. On a busy system this guarantees that the space
- >will be there when if and when it is needed. A/UX is unusual in that it
- >appears to wait until physical memory is exhausted, i.e., until it actually
- >has to page something out, before allocating space in the swap area. On
- >most UNIX systems, as someone said earlier, one typically allocates
- >something like 2 times the physical memory for swap, e.g., 40-80 Mb or even
- >more on some systems. A/UX appears to be able to make do with much less
- >swap space and swap usage tends to decrease as the physical memory increases.
-
- All these parameters (i.e. how soon or late you want to start paging) can
- be adjusted using the vhand-related kconfig variables. So if one feels
- kinda uncomfortable having vhand wait until you only have a smidgen of
- RAM left, then you can increase it's low-water mark.
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