Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Out Of Memory in v. 2.1 | Date | Sun, 04 Oct 1998 20:53:43 -0300 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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In message <Pine.LNX.4.05.9810042005290.276-100000@tahallah.demon.co.uk>, Alex Buell writes: +----- | On Sun, 4 Oct 1998, Alan Cox wrote: | > And to boot a machine with 512Mb of RAM you'll need at least 600Mb or | > so of swap file. | | Why would a machine with that amount of memory need that much swap space? | I'd have thought it wouldn't need more than 128MB at best as swap. +--->8
You missed the context: this is what would happen without swap-overcommit, so every active page of memory has to have swap allocated for it at the same time.
And this is why Linux and most other modern OSes use swap-overcommit.
-- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university
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