On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 16:30 +0100, Laurent Vaills wrote: > Here is the correct link : > http://www.redhat.com/magazine/001nov04/features/vm/ > > Laurent Huh!. Is that not the link I mentined below? Have I spelled something wrong? > > > > > > 2007/2/28, Aaron Konstam < akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Yesterday in answer to the question as to how much swap is > needed it was > suggested to read the article at: > http://www.redhat.com/magaszine/001nov04/features/vm/ > > Well this is an interesting article but it tells one nothing > about swap > fits into the virtual memory structure for the 2.4 kernel in > this case. > > Unfortunately , it is sort of complicated and as other people > have said > how much swap you need depends a good deal on what you are > doing. Swap > is an concept whose name was incorrectly borrowed from the OLD > 370 and > 360 IBM systems and to understand how it fits in to the VM > system of the > Linux kernel you need to read books like, "Linux Kernel > Development, > Second Edition", by Robert Love. > > In many cases you can run a Linux system without swap. > -- > ======================================================================= > You have a tendency to feel you are superior to most > computers. > ======================================================================= > Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: > akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- ======================================================================= It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
