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Article #2226Re: swapfile lowat?
From: Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 23:15
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 23:15
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In article <1899@esl.ESL.COM> drm@esl.com (Don McGregor) writes: ??? I recently upped my physical memory to 32 MB. I vaugely recall someone ??? suggesting that the swapfile should be at least as large as the physical ??? memory. NeXT has a default lowat of 20 MB. ??? ??? Should I increase the lowat to 32 MB? This does not seem necessary, since the swapfile will grow automatically. You will probably have very little swapping (except if you use Mathematica). You may, however, want to increase your hiwat if you have set it. -- Hardy ----- Meinhard E. Mayer, Department of Physics, UC Irvine e-mail: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (preferred) or MMAYER@UCI.BITNET !!!! NO NEXTMAIL TO THESE ADDRESSES, PLEASE !!!!!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!usc!news.service.uci.edu!hardy From: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) Subject: Re: swapfile lowat? Nntp-Posting-Host: golem.ps.uci.edu Message-ID: <HARDY.93Jan5151506@golem.ps.uci.edu> In-reply-to: drm@esl.com's message of 5 Jan 93 18:33:47 GMT Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Department of Physics, UC Irvine, CA 92717-4575, USA Lines: 19 References: <1899@esl.ESL.COM> Date: 5 Jan 93 23:15:09 GMT