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From: john@jetson.UPMA.MD.US (John Owens)
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Subject: Swap space (was Re: Why do you need a 387 to run X11R3?)
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In-reply-to: brando@uiucme2.me.uiuc.edu's message of 12 Mar 90 19:26:44 GMT

> I still also reserve opinions on whether tons on swap actually help.
> I have configured 20mb of swap compared with 10mb with no
> performance difference.

Ah, but swap space doesn't make any performance difference at all.
What happens is that one day you'll suddenly find all your swap space
in use and won't be able to execute any programs.  (V7 and other
UNIXes would simply "panic: out of swap" and crash; I don't know what
sVr3 does.)
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