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From: krk@cs.purdue.EDU (Kevin Kuehl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: VM rule of thumb (sic)
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Date: 30 May 91 15:35:04 GMT
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In article <1991May30.132055.23209@xn.ll.mit.edu> delaney@xn.ll.mit.edu (John R. Delaney) writes:
   >	The rule of thumb for allocating swap space (virtual memory to you
   >mac hacks) is 2MB of virtual to 1MB of physical. Anything more than that
   >and you start beating the disk to death.

   I am getting tired of hearing this "rule of thumb" restated as if carved on
   a bloody tablet in words of fire. I am composing this message on a TI
   Explorer with 8 MB of actual memory and 128 MB of virtual memory.

The Unix rule of thumb for vm is 2:1 if you are doing general text
editing, compiling, ...  I imagine people have adopted this for the
Mac because it is simple and works for Joe User.  I agree with John,
when you are doing LISP (probably also database work???) work this
rule of thumb completely goes out the door.
-- 
Kevin Kuehl
krk@cs.purdue.edu