Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 06 Jun 2001 13:19:58 +0300 | From | Lauri Tischler <> | Subject | Re: Break 2.4 VM in five easy steps |
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Vivek Dasmohapatra wrote: > > On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Dr S.M. Huen wrote: > > > On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Sean Hunter wrote: > > > > > > > > For large memory boxes, this is ridiculous. Should I have 8GB of swap? > > > > > > > Do I understand you correctly? > > ECC grade SDRAM for your 8GB server costs £335 per GB as 512MB sticks even > > at today's silly prices (Crucial). Ultra160 SCSI costs £8.93/GB as 73GB > > drives. > > Not the point. It is an absolute pig to have to allocate extra swap just > because extra memory was added.
Not to mention that some people stuff their machines with memory just to avoid using swap at all.
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