Swap size for large memory machines

[It's not human, and it's got an axe!]

In article <78696 at pyramid.pyramid.com> csg at pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S.
Gutekunst) writes:
>Swap space and main memory do *not* add together on a demand-paged
>virtual memory system; swap space alone must be greater than the sum of all
>processes running on the system.

This is true for the 4BSD VM system, but not VM systems in general.  In
SunOS 4.x (and SVR4) it's perfectly reasonable for swap space to be
smaller than physical memory.

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