Re: More on swap.

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 16:30 +0100, Laurent Vaills wrote:
> Here is the correct link : 
> http://www.redhat.com/magazine/001nov04/features/vm/
> 
> Laurent
Huh!. Is that not the link I mentined below? Have I spelled something
wrong?
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> 2007/2/28, Aaron Konstam < akonstam sbcglobal net>:
>         Yesterday in answer to the question as to how much swap is
>         needed it was 
>         suggested to read the article at:
>         http://www.redhat.com/magaszine/001nov04/features/vm/
>         
>         Well this is an interesting article but it tells one nothing
>         about swap 
>         fits into the virtual memory structure for the 2.4 kernel in
>         this case.
>         
>         Unfortunately , it is sort of complicated and as other people
>         have said
>         how much swap you need depends a good deal on what you are
>         doing. Swap 
>         is an concept whose name was incorrectly borrowed from the OLD
>         370 and
>         360 IBM systems and to understand how it fits in to the VM
>         system of the
>         Linux kernel you need to read books like, "Linux Kernel
>         Development, 
>         Second Edition", by Robert Love.
>         
>         In many cases you can run a Linux system without swap.
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