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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: swap on disk1
Message-ID: <1990Jul25.234706.762@virtech.uucp>
Date: 25 Jul 90 23:47:06 GMT
References: <1990Jul17.183807.6417@hawkmoon.MN.ORG> <1990Jul23.042802.18845@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <741@sci34hub.UUCP>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
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In article <741@sci34hub.UUCP> gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston) writes:
>By now, though, discs are sufficiently cheaper and faster that I always
>allocate at least 16MB of swap space, just to avoid problems. :-)

I still use the "ingrained" figure of 2*Main_Memory_Size, so my swap is 
24MB for a system with 12MB of ram.   This leaves enough room
for a copy of all running programs, plus some expansion area.  

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