Re: Unfortunate Dummy.

2003-09-02 Thread Bijan Soleymani
--UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 09:44:02PM +0200, Matthias Hentges wrote: > Am Mon, 2003-09-01 um 20.25 schrieb Carlos Sousa: > > On 02 Sep 2003 01:43:25 +0800 David Palme

Re: unfortunate dummy gets good advise

2003-09-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 16:37, zoe wrote: > many thanks for the speedy replies > > I will ask my friend to investigate your > much appreciated recommendations. > He is def confident its fixable. > > Ram I have got 524 mb of quality memmory > so my friend agrees the swap is not needed. For that mu

Re: unfortunate dummy gets good advise

2003-09-01 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 21:37:12 GMT zoe wrote: > > Ram I have got 524 mb of quality memmory > so my friend agrees the swap is not needed. It wouldn't hurt to reserve a disk partition for swap, though, as it will be more difficult (and risky) to add it afterwards. But then, a swap file is also anothe

Re: unfortunate dummy gets good advise

2003-09-01 Thread zoe
many thanks for the speedy replies I will ask my friend to investigate your much appreciated recommendations. He is def confident its fixable. Ram I have got 524 mb of quality memmory so my friend agrees the swap is not needed. So me thinks Hard ware problems are more likely or at least my linu

Re: Unfortunate Dummy.

2003-09-01 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Mon, 2003-09-01 um 20.25 schrieb Carlos Sousa: > On 02 Sep 2003 01:43:25 +0800 David Palmer wrote: > > The swap file is absolutely necessary. > > This is the space on the disc where operating transactions take place. > > Without a swap file, you don't have a system. > > Bollocks. > > Last I lo

Re: Unfortunate Dummy.

2003-09-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 01:43:25AM +0800, David Palmer wrote: > The swap file is absolutely necessary. > This is the space on the disc where operating transactions take place. > Without a swap file, you don't have a system. That isn't true. With enough memory, swap is unnecessary. Even without eno

Re: Unfortunate Dummy.

2003-09-01 Thread Carlos Sousa
On 02 Sep 2003 01:43:25 +0800 David Palmer wrote: > The swap file is absolutely necessary. > This is the space on the disc where operating transactions take place. > Without a swap file, you don't have a system. Bollocks. Last I looked, swap space (file or partition) is a way to extend virtual me

Re: Unfortunate Dummy.

2003-09-01 Thread Johann Koenig
On Tue, 02 Sep 2003 01:43:25 +0800 David Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The swap file is absolutely necessary. > This is the space on the disc where operating transactions take place. RAM is necessary, swap is not. Swap is just an extension of RAM for when it overflows. -- -johann koenig No