From: "Ihar 'Philips' Filipau" <filia@softhome.net>
To: "Mr. James W. Laferriere" <babydr@baby-dragons.com>
Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [OT] No Swap. Re: [BUG 2.6.90-test5] kernel shits itself with 48mb ram under moderate load
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 19:57:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F772108.9090301@softhome.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0309281329480.14330@filesrv1.baby-dragons.com>
Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
>>>Yes, it should. If you have 0.25GB, it can be copied into cache. If you
>>>have 0.125GB, it doesn't fit there.
>>
>> So you want to say to effectively copy (or whatever) 40GB harddrive I
>>have to have 40GB of RAM? Ridiculous.
>> Especially if copying is done in 4k lumps. (cp's default buffer)
>><sarcasm flavour=sad> Hopefully not everyone shares your opinion. </sarcasm>
>
> If I am correct , I beleive he is speaking of the amount of
> MEMORY needed to cache the copy of file data WITHOUT a swap
> partit. or file .
Probably I have misunderstood.
Can you once again explain it to me - slowly.
--
Ihar 'Philips' Filipau / with best regards from Saarbruecken.
--
"... and for $64000 question, could you get yourself vaguely
familiar with the notion of on-topic posting?"
-- Al Viro @ LKML
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-28 17:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2003-09-27 19:59 ` [OT] No Swap. Re: [BUG 2.6.90-test5] kernel shits itself with 48mb ram under moderate load Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-09-27 20:13 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-27 20:25 ` Roger Luethi
2003-09-29 5:02 ` Nick Piggin
2003-09-29 5:08 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-27 20:21 ` Roger Luethi
2003-09-28 13:06 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-09-28 15:52 ` Mikulas Patocka
2003-09-28 17:21 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-09-28 17:31 ` Mikulas Patocka
2003-09-28 17:54 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-09-28 18:04 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-28 17:33 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2003-09-28 17:57 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau [this message]
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[not found] ` <Ar3B.6UW.21@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-09-27 18:13 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-09-27 18:27 ` Roger Luethi
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