Subject: Re: NetBSD install problems
To: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
From: charlie an <charlie@tradeit.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 11/23/1998 16:44:38
Talking about swap space, I made a 160 Mb swap partition for my 24 Mb
RAM, (alghouth I rarely saw the swap was used up to 30 Mb).

The question is I've heard that some Linux only uses up to certain size
of swap partition on a per disk base, what's the scenario for NetBSD?

Charlie

"Henry B. Hotz" wrote:
> 
> At 10:09 AM -0800 11/20/98, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> >So now, has anyone booted 1.3.2-GENERIC with only 8M of ram?
> 
> 8MB is just fine.  But he only has 10MB of swap on top of it.  I'd suggest
> going to at least 20MB swap, and maybe 30MB if you only have 8MB of RAM.
> 
> All that aside I'd think he could at least boot, as long as he didn't turn
> on too many daemons.
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