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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: swap partitions bigger than 16M???
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.192800.6424@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 19:28:00 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan4.141306.9596@alw.nih.gov>, seidl@alw.nih.gov (Edward Seidl) writes:
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- | Thanks to all who e-mailed me on this one. Word from God himself (i.e. Linus)
- | is that 16M is the limit for now, but he may get around to bumping it up in
- | several months. He gave me hints on how to do it myself, though, so I'm going
- | to roll up my sleeves and start hacking around in the mm source. If I get
- | anything working (and if there's interest) I'll post the diffs...and send them
- | to Linus. If I don't get anything working...
- | Anyway, don't hold your collectivebreath, my first two stabs at it have failed
- | spectacularly :-{
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- It would certainly be useful to have Linux handle large memory space
- for image processing. Say 256MB RAM and 1GB swap would be nice. A photo
- quality image might be 4k by 3k by 24bit, or 36MB, and you can easily
- have four in memory doing some operations.
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
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