Well, I have 48 meg ram, and 96 meg swap. According to this, this should give me one kickass machine. Smile. btw, does anybody know where I could pick up old hard drives on the cheep? I realise this is probabley OT for this list, but I want an extra 4 gig or something to use as data storage, so I can use some of the audio programs, and maybe teach myself different kinds of servers, http, ftp, print server and so on. Thanks, Erik ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Myrow" <amyrow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2002 12:46 AM Subject: Re: Slackware instalation issues > That stuff about swap being twice the RAM is oudated information from the > early days of BSD that somehow has survived as a sort of Urban legend in > Linux. The reason for that rule was that early versions of BSD required > that you have the same amount of swap as RAM for the system to run at all > because when a program started, it geve it as much swap as RAM. Linux and > most other modern operating systems treat swap like extra memory. So if > you have 128M of swap plus 128M of RAM, it acts as though you have 256M of > memory and swaps only when main memory runs low. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.404 / Virus Database: 228 - Release Date: 15/10/2002
