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- From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
- Subject: Re: A/UX 3.0 Swap Space - How much is enough?
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- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 16:25:50 GMT
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- jaffe@calvin.ssc.gov (Mike Jaffe) writes:
-
- >I'm running A/UX 2.0 on a IIcx which until recently had 8 Mb of RAM. I
- >have upgraded to 32 Mb of RAM and am preparing to upgrade to A/UX 3.0. How
- >much swap space should I allow for good performance? I currently have
- >28672 blocks allocated to swap. I am an inexperienced independent system
- >administrator and would appreciate any pointers on reconfiguring the
- >system and drives for the new amount. I have an 80 Mb external drive
- >allocated to A/UX only, a 40 Mb internal drive allocated to MAC only, and
- >a 320 Mb external allocated to MAC and A/UX. Thanks in advance for the
- >help.
-
- With that much memory, it's doubtful that you'll use any swap space
- at all. Of course, you _need_ to have Swap set aside.
-
- What kind of Swap use are you seeing since upgrading to 32MB?
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