new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New) (01/16/91)
In article <1991Jan15.135156.5950@uncecs.edu> jfreem@uncecs.edu (Joe Freeman) writes: >NextStep doesn't either. Otherwise it, the operating systems and a dozen >applications (that really use the environment) would not fit on a 105 disk >with swap area. ACK! Is this true? I thought the swap space got its own 40Meg disk. Or is that only on OD configurations? If there's 40Meg on a 105Meg disk used for swapping, I can see why all that good stuff does not come with the small disk configuration. -- Darren -- --- Darren New --- Grad Student --- CIS --- Univ. of Delaware --- ----- Network Protocols, Graphics, Programming Languages, Formal Description Techniques (esp. Estelle), Coffee, Amigas ----- =+=+=+ Let GROPE be an N-tuple where ... +=+=+=
tgingric@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Tyler S Gingrich) (01/16/91)
In article <41752@nigel.ee.udel.edu> new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New) writes: >In article <1991Jan15.135156.5950@uncecs.edu> jfreem@uncecs.edu (Joe Freeman) writes: >>NextStep doesn't either. Otherwise it, the operating systems and a dozen >>applications (that really use the environment) would not fit on a 105 disk >>with swap area. > >ACK! Is this true? I thought the swap space got its own 40Meg disk. >Or is that only on OD configurations? If there's 40Meg on a 105Meg >disk used for swapping, I can see why all that good stuff does not come >with the small disk configuration. -- Darren >-- No extra swap disks on the new stations. I don't even know if the OD only configurations have a 40Mb swap disk. None of the literature I have lists a 40Mb + OD as an option available from NeXT. Of course, you could by the OD only system & home-brew a swap disk. I don't think the 105Mb systems have a LOT (eg 40Mb) used for swap. I would expect ~ 8Mb of swap space. Various folks on the Net have posted a lot of ways to crunch/archive the 105Mb & get a "more useful configuration". I'm still waiting for my 400Mb system, but can someone with a 105 please post details like: 1) How much disk space is free on the system when it's delivered? 2) How much disk is set aside for swap. 3) What is a good amount of swap space on a single-user system. (Anyone done some performance testing with different memory configurations and various swap areas -- what's a good compromise??) Tyler