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In article <david-1401960302090001@s245_7.resnet.ucla.edu>,
David Kurtz <david@ucla.edu> wrote:
>In article <4d9ui4$e63@macshack.com>, mikemc@macshack.com wrote:
>
>>Like I said, why would I want to turn off my swap file?   Are you tring 
>>to tell me that 8M of 70ns ram is better/faster than 8M of 70ns ram PLUS
>>16M of 8ms Swap?  I guess you like those out of memory/memory allocation
>>errors?  If you are not trying to multi-task, then you may be fine, 
>>sometimes.    
>>
>
>*Four* megs, let alone eight, are adequate for most Macs to, as you say,
>multitask. What kind of computer are you using that *requires* more than
>eight MB to be useful?

Last summer I used a DEC 3000 (Alpha, OSF/1, 32 MB RAM) and it
seemed to swap a hell of a lot just doing basic things when
running two apps.  I would hate to see it with anything less
than 32 mb ram.  Now I've got a friend who put NetBSD on an
identical machine and he says it flies and kicks OSF/1's butt.

Ravi
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