On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Jason Costomiris wrote: > On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 10:09:30AM -0500, Edward C. Bailey wrote: > : As one of the people involved in drafting the 7.2 release notes, there was > : a fair bit of discussion on this subject while the release notes were being > : written. The bottom line is that it's possible to come up with examples > : and counter-examples showing why 2xRAM swap is necessary or not. > > 2xRAM is a must, IMHO. Why? You need enough space to dump physical > memory to so you can write a crashdump to the disk for later examination. > >
However, this only applies if you installed the kernel debuggers and tools that will save those core files... I just thought it was important to point this out since the default kernel does not come configured with these tools to the best of my knowledge. -- ------------------------------------------------------ Nitebirdz ------------------------------------------------------ XFS for Linux: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs Mozilla: http://www.mozilla.org _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
