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From: matthews@lewhoosh.umd.edu (Mike Matthews)
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Subject: Re: My NeXT Cube Odyssey so far...(and a little OD advice)
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Date: 1 Apr 91 15:37:51 GMT
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Regarding the "swapfile should be twice as large as real memory" comment, I
have been running a 20M swapfile on a 20M core memory system for a while now,
with nary a problem.

The only time the swapfile grew (by more than a megabyte) was when one of the
programs I got off the net really screwed up virtual memory (one program
should not cause the swapfile to grow by 18 megs when nothing is really
happening...)

If you don't swap much, then you don't really need a huge swapfile.
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Mike Matthews, matthews@lewhoosh.umd.edu (NeXT)/matthews@umdd (bitnet)
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"Every time I think I know where it's at, the move it."