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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!hgatenl!mo!hans
- From: hans@mo.hobby.nl (Hans Oey)
- Subject: Re: 0.97 patchlevel 3 available
- Message-ID: <1992Sep6.174044.28957@mo.hobby.nl>
- Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 17:40:44 GMT
- References: <1992Sep5.184606.11361@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Organization: Makkee & Oey
- Lines: 18
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- torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) writes:
-
- [...]
- >The swap-page handling resulted in a reduction of swap-file (or
- >partition) size to a maximum of 16MB per file. It's nothing inherent to
- >the code, but it eased some algorithms, so I didn't bother coding around
- >it. After all, 16MB is enough for most people, and if you want more,
- >you can have up to 128 swapfiles of 16MB each. If I get enough
- >hate-mail about it, I might just try to find the energy to correct it.
- >Maybe.
- Sure, 16 Mb is enough. Jeez, why would people ever need
- more then 640 Kb? Swap partitions give far better
- performance. Should we use up to 128 partitions?
- Please remove this limitation on Linux. Would a beer or
- two help you to find the energy?
- --
- Hans Oey
- hans@mo.hobby.nl
-