From: R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl (Rogier Wolff)
To: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
Cc: Goswin Brederlow <goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de>,
Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl>,
William T Wilson <fluffy@snurgle.org>,
Matt_Domsch@Dell.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4 and 2GB swap partition limit
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 13:13:39 +0200 (MEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200104271113.NAA16761@cave.bitwizard.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <988368729.1406.2.camel@nomade> from Xavier Bestel at "Apr 27, 2001 12:51:34 pm"
Xavier Bestel wrote:
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> Le 08 Mar 2001 14:05:25 +0100, Goswin Brederlow a _crit :
>
> > I believe the 2xRAM rule comes from the OS's where ram was only buffer
> > for the swap. So with 1xRAM you had a running system with 1xRAM
> > memory, so nothing is gained by that much swap.
>
> I think kernels 2.4.x came back to this behavior.
>
> > On Linux any swap adds to the memory pool, so 1xRAM would be
> > equivalent to 2xRAM with the old old OS's.
>
> no more true AFAIK
I've always been trying to convice people that 2x RAM remains a good
rule-of-thumb.
Rogier.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-27 11:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-02 21:23 2.4 and 2GB swap partition limit Matt_Domsch
2001-03-02 23:52 ` Kenneth Johansson
2001-03-03 6:14 ` William T Wilson
2001-03-03 11:14 ` Rogier Wolff
2001-03-08 13:05 ` Goswin Brederlow
2001-04-27 10:51 ` Xavier Bestel
2001-04-27 11:13 ` Rogier Wolff [this message]
2001-04-27 20:52 ` LA Walsh
2001-04-27 21:44 ` Rik van Riel
2001-04-27 22:06 ` Thomas Dodd
2001-04-27 22:40 ` Hugh Dickins
2001-04-27 22:40 ` Rik van Riel
2001-04-29 15:12 ` Ingo Oeser
2001-04-27 22:44 ` LA Walsh
2001-04-28 7:47 ` Rogier Wolff
2001-04-27 22:22 ` Wakko Warner
2001-04-28 13:17 ` Rogier Wolff
2001-04-28 13:37 ` Wakko Warner
2001-04-28 14:11 ` Rogier Wolff
2001-04-28 14:28 ` J . A . Magallon
2001-04-30 18:12 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-01 13:00 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-05-01 16:14 ` Rogier Wolff
2001-05-01 16:35 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-05-02 10:54 ` Rogier Wolff
2001-05-02 11:04 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-05-02 12:49 ` Hugh Dickins
2001-05-02 13:43 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-05-02 0:28 ` Rik van Riel
2001-05-02 0:34 ` David S. Miller
2001-05-02 0:43 ` Rik van Riel
2001-05-02 1:14 ` Roger Larsson
2001-05-02 1:30 ` Rik van Riel
2001-05-01 13:39 ` Christoph Rohland
2001-05-01 23:25 ` Rik van Riel
2001-04-28 18:04 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-04-28 21:23 ` Rogier Wolff
2001-04-29 1:43 ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-04-29 9:17 ` Kenneth Johansson
2001-04-28 18:21 ` David Lang
2001-04-28 21:25 ` Rogier Wolff
2001-04-30 18:14 ` Alan Cox
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-03-04 22:04 Matt_Domsch
2001-03-05 8:58 ` Christoph Rohland
2001-03-05 14:30 ` Rik van Riel
2001-03-05 14:36 ` Rik van Riel
2001-03-05 14:52 ` Matti Aarnio
2001-03-05 13:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-03-05 16:53 Andries.Brouwer
2001-04-30 18:45 Torrey Hoffman
2001-04-30 19:04 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-04-30 19:07 ` David S. Miller
2001-04-30 19:14 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-04-30 21:04 ` Andreas Ferber
2001-05-02 14:31 ` Andi Kleen
2001-05-02 22:17 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-05-04 8:16 ` Andi Kleen
2001-05-03 14:04 Ishikawa
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