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Date:	Sat, 7 Sep 2002 00:55:05 PST7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: SWAPPER.DAT location

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In <3D78D254.28FD6D58@charter.net>, on 09/06/02
at 08:06 AM, Ray Davison said:

>I am currently looking at four swap files on three machines - one has two
>versions installed and one of them was last run yesterday. The machine
>with two installations is an old socket 7 P200 with 64M Ram the other two
>have 256M.

With 256MB, you have to work reasonably hard to hit the swapper at all.
With 64MB, it's much easier. :-)

>The size of all swap files is the same: 2097152. This seems rather small
>compared to some of the numbers I have seen reported. One reason I put

Well, some folks don't have a properly sized swap file. Others really do
try to run things like Java and Mozilla in less than 128MB.

>it in a root dir with little else is to make it easy to check -
>yes I could run mem watch but that seems to be unneeded clutter for a
>nonproblem.

If it's not getting accessed, the root is as good a place as any.

Steven

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