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From: gilgalad@caen.engin.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin)
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Subject: YASOQ
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Date: 4 Dec 90 03:27:37 GMT
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Howdy.  YASOQ (Yet Another Slew Of Questions).  I should be getting a NeXT
cube within a couple of weeks.  I have a few questions on optimal configs.
It will have a 40 meg disk for paging.  I have a 300 meg Wren 4.  Is
40 megs going to be enough for most needs?  Should I just scrap the 40 meg
and put  the paging partition on the Wren?  What about if I get 16 megs of RAM?
I want to reduce strain on the Wren as much as possible, that is why I'd like
restrict paging to the 40 meg.  Somebody mentioned that you can have the
swap partition spread across multiple devices.  Could I use the 40 meg, and
make a 40 meg partition on the Wren?  If I go with just the Wren drive,
what sort of space am I going to have left?  What size /tmp should I have?
Anybody know of a good location for SIMMs?  What type of SIMMs should I get?
Parity?  Will the 040 board accept the SIMMs I have now?  Any help is
appreciated.

					Thanks, Ralph

PS- Somebody mentioned /etc/swaptab for swapping space info.


Ralph Seguin			gilgalad@dip.eecs.umich.edu
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