On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, NetBSD Bob wrote:

> > > If you have lots of memory, you did not need so much swap.
> > 
> > Ok, take the answer this way:
> > If you have more memory in your system, that you EVER need, you don't need a
> > swap ;-)
> 
> Precisely.   If you had tons of memory, then a tiny swap partition suitable
> for minor maintenance or upgrade needs might be all that would be required.
> That would not be the classical 2 x ram sized swap system, in that case.
> For example, my DS5000/200 with 96mb ram, probably will not hit its ram
> limit under almost all my usage conditions.  Thus a small swap of 32mb is
> probably sufficient.   That would be enough to dd images and the like to,
> if needed, or enough to keep the machine from dying if I did one time or
> two run full up to 96mb.

  If your swap size is < (RAM size + 8K), you will not be able to get a
full kernel dump file on a crash.  If you don't care about getting kernel
dumps from crashes, then a smaller swap would be OK.

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Michael L. Hitch			mhitch@montana.edu
Computer Consultant
Information Technology Center
Montana State University	Bozeman, MT	USA