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SubjectRe: Out Of Memory in v. 2.1
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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.

I belive you are taking it out of context. I think what Alan meant was
that it would be case if you disable over-commit. I would immagine the
reason is that with over-commit disabled you would have to match a swap
page for each page in ram (in case you want to use swap at all).

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