Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Path: utzoo!utdoe!contact!steve
From: steve@contact.uucp (Steve Haller)
Subject: Re: out of swap space?
Reply-To: steve@contact.UUCP (Steve Haller)
Organization: Contact Public Unix BBS. Toronto, Canada.
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 91 14:51:22 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Apr26.145122.5462@contact.uucp>
References: <1991Apr23.214214.16521@netcom.COM>

>I am currently trying to port an application from a sun sparc station
>to SCO ODT UNIX. I seem to get some weird run time core dumps. I
>talked to the orginal authour of the code, and was told that this
>might because my system is running out of swap space?
>
>HOW BIG SHOULD MY SWAP BE? I have 8megs of ram
>

the lower bound should be the amount of physical RAM you have (plan to
have) in the machine.

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

swap(ADM) is part of the SCO ODT & UNIX distribution

I think that u386mon from Warren Tucker will allow interactive monitoring
of swap space.