Hello,

I have recently upgraded the system memory to ~384M.  But, does this mean=
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I need to make the swap size on disk ~768M?  I only have 4.8G of hard dis=
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space and with ~768M of swap space, that only leaves me roughly 1.3G of f=
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space after everything is installed.  Which makes compiling the NetBSD fr=
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sources virtually out of question.  I am asking this because last time I =
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only 128M of RAM with 256M for swap, and compilation of KDE2 failed=20
indicating lack of swap space!  Only after making my swap space 4x the=20
physical RAM, in this case 512M swap for 128M of RAM, was I successful in=
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compiling KDE2.  I was wondering with 384M of free RAM, I would still nee=
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roughly 4x swap, i.e., 1.5G for swap for 384M of RAM!, to compile KDE3.  =
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Last time I tried compiling KDE3 with 384M of RAM and 512M of swap, KDE3=20
failed during the compilation.  I assumed this was the same lack of swap=20
space issue (even with that extra 256M of free RAM!).  I  really have no =
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how swap space is handled under NetBSD and why KDE3 would require so much=
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swap to compile even when you have good chunk of RAM!   Thank you.


Yours sincerely,
S. N. Cho,
Friday, Jan. 17, 2003.