john@jetson.UPMA.MD.US (John Owens) (03/13/90)
> I still also reserve opinions on whether tons on swap actually help. > I have configured 20mb of swap compared with 10mb with no > performance difference. Ah, but swap space doesn't make any performance difference at all. What happens is that one day you'll suddenly find all your swap space in use and won't be able to execute any programs. (V7 and other UNIXes would simply "panic: out of swap" and crash; I don't know what sVr3 does.) -- John Owens john@jetson.UPMA.MD.US uunet!jetson!john +1 301 249 6000 john%jetson.uucp@uunet.uu.net
tomg@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Thomas J. Gilg) (03/15/90)
>> I still also reserve opinions on whether tons on swap actually help. > Ah, but swap space doesn't make any performance difference at all. Correct. The only thing that might help is multiple swap areas that can be interleaved to increase swap performance. Thomas Gilg tomg@cv.hp.com