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From: stevem@sauron.Columbia.NCR.COM (Steve McClure)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: UNIX sys V4.0
Message-ID: <2401@sauron.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Date: 26 Oct 90 13:02:00 GMT
References: <9010025@hpfcso.HP.COM> <15404@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Reply-To: stevem@sauron.UUCP (Steve McClure)
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In article <15404@cbmvax.commodore.com> ag@cbmvax.commodore.com (Keith Gabryelski) writes:
>In article <9010025@hpfcso.HP.COM> aoe@hpfcso.HP.COM (Alexander Elkins) writes:

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>>4) What is the typical size of the swap area on the disk?  10Mb,
>>20Mb, ?
>
>Standard 10Mb.
>

I guess the 68k and 386 versions are different.  386 uses 2x memory size for
swap.  Won't you be limiting yourself to 10M of application space this way?
My understanding is that you have to have swap for the whole application.
Seems that this was done to avoid deadlocks.

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