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From: yzarn@lhdsy1.chevron.com (Philip Yzarn de Louraille)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Swap Space Problems
Keywords: swap space
Message-ID: <1019@lhdsy1.chevron.com>
Date: 29 Jun 91 16:21:25 GMT
References: <1623@opus.NMSU.Edu>
Organization: Chevron Oil Field Research, La Habra, CA.
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In article <1623@opus.NMSU.Edu> bemery@nmsu.edu (Bryan Emery) writes:
>I am needing some advice about swap space definitions.
>
>My setup is a DECstation 3100 with Ultrix 4.1.  I have 16 Mb memory and
>about 1.8 Gbytes of disk.
>
>The installation guide suggested that I need about 2-3 times the amount of
>virtual memory in swap space and that two swap areas is more efficient than
>one.  So, I took 16*3=48 Mbytes, divided that by two and set up two 24 Mbyte
>partitions for swapping.

48 MB of swap space! That's not sufficient if you use X Windows! (and if
you only have 16 MB of real memory)

We have our DECstations 3100 set up with 125 MB of swap. Things are OK
with that but some of our developpers who are doing a lot of X programs
that use bitmaps, pixmaps and the like are starting to get close to the
upper limit. So now we are going to configure their machines with 200 MB
of swap space.
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  Philip Yzarn de Louraille                 Internet: yzarn@chevron.com
  Research Support Division                 Unix & Open Systems
  Chevron Information & Technology Co.      Tel: (213) 694-9232
  P.O. Box 446, La Habra, CA 90633-0446     Fax: (213) 694-7709