[97] in DCNS Development
Swap space on DS3100/5000
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (epeisach@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri Aug 16 09:31:16 1991
From: epeisach@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 91 09:30:35 -0400
To: developers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
History:
On the DS3100, the default swap space was 32Meg which was too small. We
upped it to 48meg.
Problem:
We have blindly done this regardless of what disk was installed with the
system. This really makes no sense as if a larger disk drive is
installed, we should possibly a) have a larger swap partition b) Allow
the owner to configure it.
Should we increase swap for systems with larger disks? We can come up
with different formulas to use based on the size of the disks and amount
of memory.
ULTRIX as shipped uses 64meg swap as the default on the larger drives
(except the RZ57 which uses 90Meg)
My proposal, is if the disk is larger than 120 Meg, we suggest the use
of 64Meg of swap, otherwise 48Meg.
If people have other suggestions, please let me know.
Ezra
