We never had anywhere near 32 MB on an MTS machine. I think the biggest
one might have been 8 MB and we supported up to 300 users on that
machine (although it was sometimes a struggle). Whether you would get
paging on a 32 MB machine depends, of course, on what people are doing.
I can bog down the paging system all by myself if I want to. However a
few people doing "normal" things won't put a significant paging load on
the machine.
Editing files puts almost no load on the machine. Compiling them is
more intensive, but still not very. I don't recall that ever being an
issue. If the machine was slow it wasn't due to someone compiling
something.
Mike
On 26 Jan 2024, at 21:02, Bile Geek wrote:
I promise this is the last time spamming your / the group's inbox,
just
qualifying to the above email:
*how low can MAINSIZE go [without hitting swap constantly, or
even often]
People have obviously run timesharing systems on kilobytes of RAM,
just
wondering what's comfortable for later MTS.
