Subject: Re: YDL Instaltion Woes
linux@demian.shacknet.nu
Date: Wed Jul 25 2001 - 12:50:42 MDT
I've also been running 2.4.x kernels with 256 MB of RAM and only 64MB of
swap! Where is this info from? The kernel doesn't seem to care.
christopher.murtagh@mcgill.ca writes:
> On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Bruce Thompson wrote:
>> More to the point, the 2.4 series of the kernel _require_ a minimum
>>of twice RAM allocated as SWAP. There has been some talk on the kernel
>>mailing list of removing this requirement I believe, but the requirement
>>is real for now. It's a good rule of thumb anyway.
>
> Where did you read this? I have a machine running BenH's 2.4.6pre7 kernel
> right now that has 512MB of RAM and a 128MB swap space. So far, it has
> been running very well, even after I had 6 machines hit it as hard as they
> could.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
>
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