Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!hsi!stpstn!aad From: aad@stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: A Thought on X Terminals Message-ID: <2856@stpstn.UUCP> Date: 27 Feb 89 23:47:19 GMT References: <19613@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <7627@venera.isi.edu> <510@maxim.ERBE.SE> Reply-To: aad@stepstone.com Distribution: comp Organization: The Stepstone Corporation, Sandy Hook, CT Lines: 36 In article <510@maxim.ERBE.SE> prc@maxim.ERBE.SE (Robert Claeson) writes: >But 10x75 MB of SWAP on a large host is more cost-effective than 75MB >of swap per workstation since the swap space is shared among all users. Under whose OS? Certainly not SunOS. Swap space exists as one big file for each client: beaker# pwd /export/swap beaker# ls -l total 181874 drwxr-sr-x 3 root 512 Jan 31 14:34 ./ drwxr-sr-x 6 root 512 Jul 28 1988 ../ -rw------t 1 root 16000000 Jul 28 1988 barkley -rw------t 1 root 16000000 Nov 12 18:12 bert -rw------t 1 root 16000000 Jul 28 1988 cookie -rw------t 1 root 16000000 Jul 28 1988 doc -rw------t 1 root 16000000 Jul 28 1988 ernie -rw------t 1 root 16000000 Jul 28 1988 frazzle -rw------t 1 root 16000000 Feb 27 18:43 gonzo -rw------t 1 root 16000000 Feb 19 18:36 kermit drwxr-xr-x 2 root 8192 Jul 28 1988 lost+found/ -rw------t 1 root 16000000 Feb 27 17:23 marvin -rw------t 1 root 16000000 Jul 28 1988 scooter -rw------t 1 root 16000000 Jul 28 1988 snuffy -rw------t 1 root 16000000 Feb 19 18:37 zoot beaker# df . Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on /dev/xy0e 181892 181873 0 111% /export/swap -- @disclaimer(Any concepts or opinions above are entirely mine, not those of my employer, my GIGI, my VT05, or my 11/34) beak is@>beak is not Anthony A. Datri @SysAdmin(Stepstone Corporation) aad@stepstone.com stpstn!aad