Subject: Re: tmp in mfs and swap
To: Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com <michaelv@HeadCandy.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: current-users
Date: 02/04/1996 17:30:36
On Sun, 04 Feb 1996 17:29:16 -0800 
 "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@HeadCandy.com> wrote:

 > >I could be a real lose on 4mb sun3/50 systems...
 > 
 > Do you *know* it would be a real lose on a 4MB system, or are you just
 > assuming?

My 3/50 swapped *A LOT* when I compiled pine (which passes -pipe to the 
compiler in its build process).  Letting the compiler use an honest /tmp 
on-disk filesystem helped a bit...

A 4mb i386 might be different ... *shrug*

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