More on swap.
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Wed Feb 28 15:52:49 UTC 2007
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/
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> Laurent
Huh!. Is that not the link I mentined below? Have I spelled something
wrong?
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> 2007/2/28, Aaron Konstam < akonstam at sbcglobal.net>:
> 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/
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> 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.
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> 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.
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