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From: rfarris@rfengr.com (Rick Farris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: out of swap space??
Summary: sar -r
Message-ID: <1991Apr24.165943.7202@rfengr.com>
Date: 24 Apr 91 16:59:43 GMT
References: <1991Apr23.214037.16410@netcom.COM>
Organization: RF Engineering, Del Mar, California
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In article <1991Apr23.214037.16410@netcom.COM> aed@netcom.COM (Andrew Davidson) writes:

> HOW BIG SHOULD MY SWAP BE? I have 8megs of ram

It depends, but 16 MB wouldn't be a bad place to start.


> ARE THERE ANY TOOLS TO HELP ME MANAGE / MONITOR MY SWAP SPACE?

sar -r

For a discussion of 'sar -r' and the rest of the sar tools,
see "System Performance Tuning" by Mike Loukides, a Nutshell
handbook from O'Reilly and Associates.

And why are you SHOUTING AT US?


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