swap on disk1

Conor P. Cahill cpcahil at virtech.uucp
Thu Jul 26 09:47:06 AEST 1990


In article <741 at sci34hub.UUCP> gary at sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston) writes:
>By now, though, discs are sufficiently cheaper and faster that I always
>allocate at least 16MB of swap space, just to avoid problems. :-)

I still use the "ingrained" figure of 2*Main_Memory_Size, so my swap is 
24MB for a system with 12MB of ram.   This leaves enough room
for a copy of all running programs, plus some expansion area.  

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