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- From: pas@jupitercmc.ca (Peter Stokes)
- Subject: Re: Swap Space Question
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.163052.27644@venus.ic.cmc.ca>
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- References: <1993Jan23.071928.16738@urartu.sdpa.org> <JDELL.93Jan24131648@nefertiti.mit.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:30:52 GMT
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- In article <JDELL.93Jan24131648@nefertiti.mit.edu>, jdell@nefertiti.mit.edu (John Ellithorpe) writes:
- |> On Sat, 23 Jan 1993 07:19:28 GMT, dbd@urartu.sdpa.org (David Davidian) said:
- |>
- |> > This a quick question regarding swap space. I have a SPARC 1, with 8 meg RAM,
- |> > and certainly need more to give X Windows breathing space. I have about 22 meg
- |> > of swap space, and want to go to 16 Meg of RAM. Theoretically, I should only
- |> > need a bit more than 16 meg of swap space on disk. Question: Is 22 meg enough
- |> > swap space for a 16 meg RAM system? (I would rather not re-partition the disks
- |> > for more space unless I have to).
- |>
- |> Well, I think the real answer to that question is, you need the swap space as
- |> big as you require. Not much of an answer, but let me explain. If you are
- |> using your SPARC to check mail and editing and other tasks which don't require
- |> crunching on large amounts of data, then your system is probably okay.
- |>
- |> On our system, we require large amounts of data to be crunched and run
- |> programs which are quite large. So to be safe, we have our SPARCs with
- |> 100 MB of swap.
- |>
- |> You should find out if processes are running out of memory.
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- But is it not true that:
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- virtual memory = swap space
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- and that:
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- swap space must be >= physical memory
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- Peter
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