On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 12:26:49PM -0300, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 04:48:05PM -0300, Antonio da Silva Martins Junior wrote: > > Well, on old unix systems (Solaris, AIX), if you didn't have swap at > > least the double of RAM you can't use all your RAM. > > > > But, back then 64Mb RAM was a lot of RAM. > > Can't use all RAM ? Are you sure about that ? On OLD systems, yes. You'd be limited by swap, not ram. > I clearly remember (Linxu and AIX on this one) that if you had more than > double, you would not use all your SWAP. RAM is always accessible ... That always depends on the workload, but I prefer to have processes being killed by OOM instead of having the machine thrashing about. So I usually don't use more than 1GB. -- lfr 0/0
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