From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) Subject: Re: bug: In kernel or in screen? Date: 14 Feb 1993 14:11:10 +0100
In comp.os.linux, article <1993Feb14.095312.4591@klaava.Helsinki.FI>,
wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) writes:
> jbii@HDFS1.acd.com ( John O. Bell II ) writes:
> >Try increasing your swap space to 32 Mb. As a rule, it helps to have twice
> >as much swap space as you have RAM on board.
>
> No it doesn't. Increasing swap space doesn't help a squat if you
> aren't already using all or most of what you already have.
>
> The rule is
> RAM + swap space >= total memory you need at any one time
>
That's the correct rule under Linux. Some other Unix systems behave
differently.
NB: Problem: "ps axu" (the /proc ps) says:
USER PID %CPU %MEM SIZE RSS TT STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 60 0.0 0.0 168 0 ? S 06:19 0:00 (xterm)
root 61 0.0 5.7 296 384 ? S 06:19 0:01 /usr/X386/bin/xterm
which seems to mean that the first xterm is swapped out (or something like
that).
But how do I get it swapped back in? Simply pulling the appropriate xterm
window to the front did nothing. "kill -ALRM" resulted in a TCP packet storm
between the Linux box and my X server; unfortunately I couldn't look at the
IP packets. Fred, when will that NET+Streams rewrite be available? :-/
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