Messages in this thread |  | | Date | 07 Jun 2001 00:44:00 +0200 | From | (Kai Henningsen) | Subject | Re: Break 2.4 VM in five easy steps |
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viro@math.psu.edu (Alexander Viro) wrote on 06.06.01 in <Pine.GSO.4.21.0106060637580.7264-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>:
> 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.
As a "will break without" rule, I'd consider a kernel with that property completely unsuitable for production use. I certainly don't remember thinking of that as more than a recommendation back when I used commercial Unices (SysVsomething).
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