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From: Eric.Thayer@cs.cmu.edu (Eric H. Thayer)
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Subject: Re: How big should a cheap hard disk be?
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In article <127203@jake.encore.com> wcarroll@encore.com (Mr. New Dad) 
writes:
> If this is true, what could you
> possibly need 40 MB, much less 170 MB, of swap disk for on what is 
> basically a single-user box?

If you are the type of single-user who likes to have a number of 
heavyweight tasks lying around, you can chew through 40Mb of swap space 
fairly easily.  All you really have to do is start up Mathematica and give 
it a "tough" problem and it will use up gobs of swapping space.

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