Hey,

Sounds like you just need to get more ram.  Another idea, if your
strapped for cash.. would be to have swap partitions on two drives..
so you get about twice the swap speed.  I usually have 512MB swap
partitions as a minimum value.  I'd recommend getting 512MB or more
physical ram as the extra should be used as disk/file cache and will
speed up the system a lot!

Good Luck!
loxety

On 6/20/05, Amadeus Stevenson <amadeus.stevenson@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello!
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> I've got the summer off (at last!) from college so I've reinstated my
> ultra5 with a fresh install of the latest build snapshot (HEAD).
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> I'm just compiling a few utilities (wget, screen etc) from pkgsrc with
> no other processes (and no X) running and:
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> Memory: 52M Act, 27M Inact, 456K Wired, 5744K Exec, 58M File, 1584K Free
> Swap: 128M Total, 3328K Used, 125M Free
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> Seems like the compiler is using a lot of memory! I don't know what
> "File" means, but the fact that the swap gets used seems like it's run
> out of physical memory to me.
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> What memory amounts would you suggest? Swap?
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> Thanks
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> Amadeus (hoping to get firefox working under X soon)
>