Hello Virtual Origami, 

Once you wrote about "Re: swap":
> On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Edward Schernau wrote:
> 
> > P.S.        Anyone else bothered by the fact that you have to make a swap
> > part.?
> 
> No.
> 
> Swap's good to have around for when you manage to load up your machine 
> heavily enough to run out of real RAM (for instance, on my machine with 
> 128 MB of RAM, running both VMware and Netscape pretty much requires that 
> swap space :).  Second, it's a handly place to stick sleeping processes 
> to get them out of the way of your running processes.  I could see not 
> having a swap partition if you have a machine with 256 MB or more of RAM, 
> but that's about it.

I guess, the processor also means something.  If I have 80486/66MHz or
even 100MHz and 64Mb RAM, I don't think I will need alot of swap... ;-)

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 Leonid Mamtchenkov
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