Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Jun 2001 19:10:29 +0200 | From | Remi Turk <> | Subject | Re: Break 2.4 VM in five easy steps |
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On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 06:48:32AM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote: > On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Sean Hunter wrote: > > > This is completely bogus. I am not saying that I can't afford the swap. > > What I am saying is that it is completely broken to require this amount > > of swap given the boundaries of efficient use. > > Funny. I can count many ways in which 4.3BSD, SunOS{3,4} and post-4.4 BSD > systems I've used were broken, but I've never thought that swap==2*RAM rule > was one of them. > > Not that being more kind on swap would be a bad thing, but that rule for > amount of swap is pretty common. ISTR similar for (very old) SCO, so it's > not just BSD world. How are modern Missed'em'V variants in that respect, BTW?
Although I don't have any swap-trouble myself, what I think most people are having problems with is not that Linux doesn't have the "you-dont-need-2xRAM-size-swap-if-you-swap-at-all feature", but that it lost it in 2.4.
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