Rogier Wolff writes: > Wakko Warner wrote: >>> So you've spent almost $200 for RAM, and refuse to spend >>> $4 for 1Gb of swap space. Fine with me. So that is a factor of 50 in price. It's what, a factor of 1000000 in access time? > That disk space is just sitting there. Never to be used. I spent $400 > on the RAM, and I'm now reserving about $8 worth of disk space for > swap. I think that the $8 is well worth it. It keeps my machine > functional a while longer should something go haywire... As I said: > If you don't want to see it that way: Fine with me. It is a disaster waiting to happen. Instead of having the offending process get killed, your machine could suffer extreme thrashing. Have enough swap for idle processes and no more. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
- Re: 2.4 and 2GB swap partitio... Stephen C. Tweedie
- Re: 2.4 and 2GB swap partitio... Rogier Wolff
- Re: 2.4 and 2GB swap partitio... Stephen C. Tweedie
- Re: 2.4 and 2GB swap partitio... Hugh Dickins
- Re: 2.4 and 2GB swap partitio... Stephen C. Tweedie
- Re: 2.4 and 2GB swap partitio... Rik van Riel
- Re: 2.4 and 2GB swap partitio... David S. Miller
- Re: 2.4 and 2GB swap partitio... Rik van Riel
- Re: 2.4 and 2GB swap partitio... Roger Larsson
- Re: 2.4 and 2GB swap partitio... Rik van Riel
- Re: 2.4 and 2GB swap partitio... Albert D. Cahalan
- Re: 2.4 and 2GB swap partitio... Rogier Wolff
- Re: 2.4 and 2GB swap partitio... Jonathan Lundell
- Re: 2.4 and 2GB swap partitio... Kenneth Johansson
- Re: 2.4 and 2GB swap partitio... David Lang
- Re: 2.4 and 2GB swap partitio... Rogier Wolff
- Re: 2.4 and 2GB swap partitio... Alan Cox
- RE: 2.4 and 2GB swap partition limit Matt_Domsch
- Re: 2.4 and 2GB swap partition limit Christoph Rohland
- Re: 2.4 and 2GB swap partition limit Matti Aarnio
- Re: 2.4 and 2GB swap partition limit Rik van Riel