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From: amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker)
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Subject: Re: System 7.0 and RAM
Message-ID: <1991Apr12.201532.18426@visix.com>
Date: 12 Apr 91 20:15:32 GMT
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In article <1991Apr11.193950.7332@cbnewsk.att.com> ech@cbnewsk.att.com
(ned.horvath) writes:

   gave a rule of thumb of about a factor of two between real and virtual
   memory; try to squeeze it more than that, and you begin to spend all your
   time in disk-wait.

This rule of thumb seems about right for System 7.0, as well.  10M virtual
running in 5MB physical works very nicely.  More than that begins to bog
down some.  I'd also recommend running at least 4MB physical, or you're
going to be spending all your time swapping your system heap back in...

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