Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site phri.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!pesnta!phri!roy From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: net.arch Subject: Re: Memory Law Message-ID: <2022@phri.UUCP> Date: Sun, 17-Nov-85 16:01:30 EST Article-I.D.: phri.2022 Posted: Sun Nov 17 16:01:30 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 18-Nov-85 07:45:04 EST References: <764@bu-cs.UUCP> <746@rtech.UUCP> Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY) Lines: 14 > > I have been trying to come up with a reasonable rule of thumb > > for how much memory is too much > On a 750 with 8 meg you're probably running out of gas in the CPU For what it's worth, our 750 came with 2 Meg and we were always doing a lot of paging. Now we have 4 Meg and almost never do any. Typical load is 3 emacs's, a big bib/tbl/neqn/nroff job, and a compile or some big number cruncher (not to mention 6 people with lots of idle time). Keep in mind the 1 Meg 4.2bsd kernel, so we're talking 1 vs. 3 Meg of user memory. -- Roy Smith System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016