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- On Sat, 14 Jun 1997, Richard Townsend wrote:
-
- > On Sat, 14 Jun 1997, Philip Blundell wrote:
- >
- > > On Sat, 14 Jun 1997, Ian Molton wrote:
- > >
- > > > Mmm. Okay...
- > > > How about 420Mb linux
- > > > 60Mb swap (other drive)
- > > > the rest of other drive also linux?
- > >
- > > That should be OK, though I still don't understand what you want to do
- > > with all that swap space. You machine will probably grind to a halt long
- > > before you use it all up.
- >
- > Surely it depends on how much RAM is in the machine. If 32Mb, 60Mb is
- > about right (too small, if anything)....
-
- No, you're thinking of BSD. Linux doesn't allocate swap space in parallel
- with RAM, so if you have 32MB of RAM and 60MB of swap you just have 92MB
- of virtual memory. I guess you could make a case for wanting that much
- swap, but I'd be surprised if you actually used it. Plenty of people run
- fine with only 60MB or so of virtual memory.
-
- My machines have about 50MB of RAM and about 200MB of swap - they
- occasionally run heavily into the swap space, but most of the time only
- around 2MB of it is used.
-
- p.
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