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- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Path: sparky!uunet!van-bc!stewart
- From: stewart@wimsey.bc.ca (Jim Stewart)
- Subject: Re: 0.97 patchlevel 3 available
- Organization: Wimsey
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 08:11:07 GMT
- Message-ID: <BuAxEK.A58@wimsey.bc.ca>
- References: <1992Sep5.184606.11361@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <1992Sep8.181011.17161@crd.ge.com>
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- In article <1992Sep8.181011.17161@crd.ge.com> davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
- >In article <1992Sep5.184606.11361@klaava.Helsinki.FI>, 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.
- >
- > Hate mail, no, but I think this should be fixed at some point.
- >As long as multiple swap file work those users who need huge swap space
- >can have it by creating a /swap (or some such) partition and creating
- >multiple swap files within it. It's ugly, but I see no reason why a
- >feature used only by a few people should be pretty as long as it works.
- >If you couldn't do it at all I'd complain, but I can live with this if
- >my image size gets so big it doesn't fit in 16+16 I'll live with a
- >little inconvenience. Of course having more memory work would be nice,
- >too, but it raises all sorts of problems. Maybe memory >16M could be
- >used for swap of some such.
-
- Huge images are a problem now. Until the GCC "large initialized array"
- problem is fixed, it will be not be possible to compile xphoon :-), or
- more importantly flex -f scanners without a very large swapspace. I seem
- to allways be deleting 10 meg core files. Please don't misunderstand,
- this is not hate mail, (or even mildly perturbed mail) ... I can live
- without xphoon, and compressed scanners are fast enough under linux :-)
-
- js
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