Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 Apr 1999 21:29:27 +0200 | From | Marc Espie <> | Subject | Re: Static Swap |
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In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.990413175624.15190A-100000@z.ml.org> you write:
>Heheh...
>I'm not quite sure why you would want to do this with ram and hdd >prices today, on a normal system you should plan on having 2x more swap >then you will ever need so if you are actually getting close to running >out then you have bigger problems.
Think `laptop'.
Or think `older machine with special memory', like an amiga with a GVP G-Force accelerator. Those still take pricey memory.
I can understand developpers not wanting to go out of their way to cater for those machines, but... just to put things into perspective.
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