Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: 2.4 and 2GB swap partition limit | From | Xavier Bestel <> | Date | 27 Apr 2001 12:51:34 +0200 |
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Le 08 Mar 2001 14:05:25 +0100, Goswin Brederlow a écrit :
> I believe the 2xRAM rule comes from the OS's where ram was only buffer > for the swap. So with 1xRAM you had a running system with 1xRAM > memory, so nothing is gained by that much swap.
I think kernels 2.4.x came back to this behavior.
> On Linux any swap adds to the memory pool, so 1xRAM would be > equivalent to 2xRAM with the old old OS's.
no more true AFAIK
Xav
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