On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 13:15:40 -0600
"Jack O'Quin" <joq@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Jan Depner <eviltwin69@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 14:05, Joe Hartley wrote:
> >> On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 13:32:26 -0600
> >> FWIW, I still make swap 2x the amount of RAM, even though it's often
> >> not necessary. Some habits die hard... like typing "sync" 3 times
> >> before giving the shutdown command!
> >
> > LOL! Yeah, me too.
>
> I've always been a 3-sync man, myself.
>
> Never was one of those wild and crazy 2-sync people. :-)
That's because you needed the third to make sure the buffers were really
flushed to disk!!!
I still think that SunOS 4.1.3 was the peak of Sun's OS journey.
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Without deviation from the norm, "progress" is not possible. - FZappa
