Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 28 Sep 2003 19:57:28 +0200 | From | "Ihar 'Philips' Filipau" <> | Subject | Re: [OT] No Swap. Re: [BUG 2.6.90-test5] kernel shits itself with 48mb ram under moderate load |
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Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: >>>Yes, it should. If you have 0.25GB, it can be copied into cache. If you >>>have 0.125GB, it doesn't fit there. >> >> So you want to say to effectively copy (or whatever) 40GB harddrive I >>have to have 40GB of RAM? Ridiculous. >> Especially if copying is done in 4k lumps. (cp's default buffer) >><sarcasm flavour=sad> Hopefully not everyone shares your opinion. </sarcasm> > > If I am correct , I beleive he is speaking of the amount of > MEMORY needed to cache the copy of file data WITHOUT a swap > partit. or file .
Probably I have misunderstood. Can you once again explain it to me - slowly.
-- Ihar 'Philips' Filipau / with best regards from Saarbruecken. -- "... and for $64000 question, could you get yourself vaguely familiar with the notion of on-topic posting?" -- Al Viro @ LKML
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