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From: phillip@BARTAL.COM (Phillip M. Vogel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: out of swap space??
Message-ID: <450@bartal.BARTAL.COM>
Date: 27 Apr 91 22:10:51 GMT
References: <1991Apr23.214037.16410@netcom.COM> <1991Apr24.165943.7202@rfengr.com>
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In article <1991Apr23.214037.16410@netcom.COM> aed@netcom.COM (Andrew Davidson) writes:
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> HOW BIG SHOULD MY SWAP BE? I have 8megs of ram

I would like to add a word or so to this thread, based on a
'learning experience' that I had a while back.

Make your swap space AT LEAST as large as you ever expect your
ram to get.  My system originally had 4 megs of ram, and the ISC
installation script suggested something like 5 meg of swap space.
Later on, I added another 4 meg of ram, and some more swap space
on a second drive.  Everything was fine until the kernel paniced
for some reason I've since forgotten, and dumped core.

When the kernel dumps core, it puts the core dump into the swap
area ON THE PRIMARY DISK. Well, 8 megs of core dump into 5 megs
of disk space sort of leaked out and trashed my root filesystem.
Live and learn. This one surely was not in TFM.
	Phillip
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