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Kamal R. Prasad
AIX Support & Test, IBM India Software Labs
Golden Enclave, Airport Road, Bangalore-560017, India
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David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
Sent by: tech-kern-owner@netbsd.org
05/19/2003 09:00 AM
 
        To:     tech-kern@netbsd.org
        cc: 
        Subject:        Minimum swap size

 


> I'm looking at the install scripts, currently they default swap
> to 4 times systems RAM.  This is a historical figure - I think based
> on the fact that big systems are likely to have more RAM.

this maybe because your installation scripts are dated. ie FreeBSd, linux 
and solaris probably don't estimate swap space this way (and will rarely 
set it beyond 128 MB).

>- the smaller of 4 * RAM and 128MB

this looks like the prevalent policy in other Unix'es.

>I was also considering making '/' at least 1/10th of the disk.
>That will give some space for /var and /tmp - I've had too much trouble
>with vi running out of space in /var/tmp when editing file of only a few
>10's of MB...

yeah -quite common to see that happen. a seteuid(0) program which gets 
called to clean up /var/tmp when this state is reached will also suffice. 

 
regards
-kamal