On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > I am asking because I have just ordered a new drive for my Vaio (8.1 gig
> > in a 8.45mm drive!) and I want to install 2.4.x on it. (I like getting
>
> 8.1GB in under centimeter? That's 8.1GB in compactflash slot?
Standard laptop drive size
At 1:51 pm + 2/2/2001, Pavel Machek wrote:
>Hi!
>
>> I am asking because I have just ordered a new drive for my Vaio (8.1 gig
>> in a 8.45mm drive!) and I want to install 2.4.x on it. (I like getting
>
>8.1GB in under centimeter? That's 8.1GB in compactflash slot?
In general, i think the nor
Hi!
> I am asking because I have just ordered a new drive for my Vaio (8.1 gig
> in a 8.45mm drive!) and I want to install 2.4.x on it. (I like getting
8.1GB in under centimeter? That's 8.1GB in compactflash slot?
Pavel
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Rik van Riel writes:
> On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Matthew Kirkwood wrote:
> > On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > > While reclaiming swap space when you run out is pretty
> > > trivial to do, Linus doesn't seem to like the idea all
> > > that much and Disk Space Is Cheap(tm) so it's not very
>
> "Kevin" == Kevin Krieser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Kevin> You mean my current 1.9 gig of swap is overkill? :) I have
Kevin> 256MB of RAM, and am currently not using any of the swap.
Looks like you are a perfect candidate for testing shmfs[1] as /tmp, eh?
[1] or vmfs or tmpfs or whatever
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 04:22:20PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > At the moment there is no way to reclaim the swap space if
> > the page is shared, and for non-shared pages we haven't
> > implemented a way to reclaim swap space.
> >
> > While reclai
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 04:22:20PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote:
> At the moment there is no way to reclaim the swap space if
> the page is shared, and for non-shared pages we haven't
> implemented a way to reclaim swap space.
>
> While reclaiming swap space when you run out is pretty
> trivial to d
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Matthew Kirkwood wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> > While reclaiming swap space when you run out is pretty
> > trivial to do, Linus doesn't seem to like the idea all
> > that much and Disk Space Is Cheap(tm) so it's not very
> > high on my list of things
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
> While reclaiming swap space when you run out is pretty
> trivial to do, Linus doesn't seem to like the idea all
> that much and Disk Space Is Cheap(tm) so it's not very
> high on my list of things to do.
'anybody who says "disk is cheap" deserves to be
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 09:48:33AM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > It has. We now leave dirty pages swapcached, which means that
> > for certain workloads Linux 2.4 eats up much more swap space
> > than Linux 2.2.
>
> Ah.. thanks for the clarification
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 09:48:33AM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote:
> It has. We now leave dirty pages swapcached, which means that
> for certain workloads Linux 2.4 eats up much more swap space
> than Linux 2.2.
Ah.. thanks for the clarification. Is this duplication "hard" or "soft"?
i.e. under low
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 02:57:44PM -0800, Alan Olsen wrote:
> >
> > What is the recommended amount of swap with the 2.4.x kernels?
>
> AFAIK, swap requirements for applications running under a 2.4
> kernel have not changed significantly from 2.2 ker
better off configure squid and use that as web cache.
Thanks,
Jeff
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Subject: RE: Recommend
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 03:23:35PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 02:57:44PM -0800, Alan Olsen wrote:
> >
> > What is the recommended amount of swap with the 2.4.x kernels?
>
> AFAIK, swap requirements for applications running under a 2.4 kernel have not
> changed sig
You mean my current 1.9 gig of swap is overkill? :)
I have 256MB of RAM, and am currently not using any of the swap.
So, I probably have too much swap allocated. But I wanted to find an use
for a gig SCSI drive I have, and it was just easiest to add it as swap.
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On Mon, 29 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This always struck me as the most stupid rule of thumb I'd ever heard
> of. With this metric, systems which precisely need swap the most
It used to be basically meaningful, for systems that had to swap, instead
of page. In those cases, in order to
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 03:23:35PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 02:57:44PM -0800, Alan Olsen wrote:
> > The standard rule is usually memory x 2. (But that is more a Solaris
> > superstition than anything else.)
>
> This always struck me as the most stupid rule of thu
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 02:57:44PM -0800, Alan Olsen wrote:
>
> What is the recommended amount of swap with the 2.4.x kernels?
AFAIK, swap requirements for applications running under a 2.4 kernel have not
changed significantly from 2.2 kernels (please anyone correct me if I'm wrong),
so the bas
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Alan Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>What is the recommended amount of swap with the 2.4.x kernels?
>
>The standard rule is usually memory x 2. (But that is more a Solaris
>superstition than anything else.)
"memory x 2" is probably a good rule. With normal us
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