Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 16 Aug 1998 16:06:38 -0700 | From | Todd Larason <> | Subject | Re: A true story of a crash. |
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On 980816, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > I've tried using a system with strict allocation, and it runs out of > memory *really* quickly. In fact, it usually runs out of memory so > quickly that it's frequently not very useful.
I've used a large Solaris system (~2 1/2 gig RAM) with strictallocation (I don't know if that was standard, or if our site had it turned on for some reason) where we had to have *many* gigabytes of disk dedicated to swap, despite the fact that *none* of it was ever used.
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