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  From: Mat Farrington <mafarrin@holon.com.au>
  To  : Geoffrey Bennett <g@netcraft.com.au>
  Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 18:20:21 +0930

Re: formatting and partitioning

Geoffrey D. Bennett wrote:

> BTW, 100MB of swap for Linux is probably overkill...

...for most people.  I've seen Design/CPN use more that 300 Meg though. 
It's an application that appreciates space.

Do you reckon the 1:2 rule applies for bigger machines?  I've only got
128Meg of RAM and 128Meg of swap on The Pro 200 (ie, 1:1), and 256Meg of
swap does start to sound like overkill!  :-)

You see, I figure that once swapping starts the performance gets so bad
that you  might was well stop grinding-away with the simulation and buy
some more RAM (rather than spend money making your swap partition fast).

Mat F.
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