Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Out Of Memory in v. 2.1 | Date | Sun, 04 Oct 1998 21:11:49 -0400 | From | Adam Sulmicki <> |
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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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