On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 03:45:24PM -0500, Josh McKinney wrote:
> Check out the latest ac kernel and the latest linus kernel also. Linus has
> been working on vm balancing as a top priority recently and the latest ac
> has a patch to fix the swap=2*ram thing.
>
> Josh
That's cool; Ill go and h
On approximately Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 01:22:57PM -0700, Mike Pfleger wrote:
> that are AFAIK not yet "fixed"? If this has been fixed, please let me know
> as I have been checking the changelogs at kernel.org, and seen no mention
> of swap issues being addressed in the last little while.
>
Check o
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 03:02:57AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> - Swapping sucks.
> - Running out of memory sucks more.
> - Repartitioning sucks most.
>
> There's also a lot of obsolete data floating around about GNU/Linux in
> general.
I have a question that seems appropriate here. In
Oh,
A couple things I wanted to include that I forgot. Just thought
I would let you know that I have 512 MB's of ram and felt that I
wouldn't be using swap very much, so I made my swap partition 256 MB.
And, in case it's of any help, here is some info about my layout.
I just made a
Hi Keith,
I will try and help as best I can with some of these questions,
and more!
First, I would like to recommend that you read the partitioning how-to
at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Partition/partition-4.html
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 09:00:03AM +0100, Keith O'
on Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 09:00:03AM +0100, Keith O'Connell ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> 1: I recently read that logical partitions were better than primary
> because of the size limits on the directories. I didn't quit
> understand this. On this laptop I have 4 primary partitions, with the
> 4th h
My $0.02's worth re. swap:
Suppose you are consistently using 256MB of swap on your fairly up-to-date
machine. That means you definitely need to buy and install 256MB RAM,
which is dirt cheap today.
Therefore, I think on a modern machine, the swap space should be equal to
the minimum amount of
High,
On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Keith O'Connell wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have just build a machine, and am ready to start putting the "stable"
> on it. This is the first time I have built one from scratch, and it has
> made me think in detail about what I am doing as I put it all together.
> Now as I am new
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