[H-GEN] Linux & NTFS

[Greg Black]

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"Michael Anthon" wrote:

| To answer your question, if you have a system with 256M of RAM and all you
| ever do is run it as a desktop using X and a couple of apps then you will
| probably never use any swap anyway.

Not sure that I'd go that far.  My workstation shows the
following:

    $ grep 'real memory' /var/run/dmesg.boot 
    real memory  = 402640896 (393204K bytes)
    $ uptime
     9:42PM  up 166 days,  3:39, 1 user, load averages: 0.22, 0.17, 0.15
    $ pstat -s
    Device          1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Type
    /dev/ad0s1b        524160    27460   496700     5%    Interleaved
    /dev/rad2s1b       524160    27684   496476     5%    Interleaved
    Total             1048320    55144   993176     5%

So it has 384 MB of RAM and 1 GB of swap.  It has used very
little of that swap in the almost 6 months it has been up, but
it has used some -- and it would not have been pleasant had
there been no swap at all.

Greg

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