pschmidt@athena.mit.edu (Peter H. Schmidt) (04/11/91)
In article <1991Apr9.160921.11987@oswego.oswego.edu> ostroff@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff) writes: >[...] I'm not sure if you really gain anything by [enlarging the swap >partition] (unless you're swapping out LOTS of processes). Perhaps someone >else can answer this one..... The only way I ever ran out of swap was by running two different, unshared GNU Emacses, both trying run RMAIL (which is a fair amount of elisp). Since I had need to do this then (don't ask why), I increased my swap to 10M, and haven't run out since, not even w/TeX, gcc, g++, emacs, etc. I have managed to run out of *virtual* memory space, though, which is a major bummer. 4M VM is probably the single biggest uncorrectable limitation of this machine. REEEEgards -- Peter -- Peter H. Schmidt | ...mit-eddie!winter!pschmidt 3 Colonial Village, #10 | winter!pschmidt@mit-eddie.mit.edu Arlington, MA 02174 | -- Speaking for myself.