Re: Linux on top of win95
On Wed, Feb 18, 1998 at 04:39:26PM +0000, C.J.LAWSON wrote:
> At the risk of apearing to be knit-picking, I ask
> (1) How much mempry do you consider as a lot ... from what I can remember
> 16Mb was sufficient to do away with the swap file (probably except if
> you are runnig X ..)
Is any amount of memory enough to do away with swap?
Just think of it this way; when real memory runs out, without any swap,
programs will die. If you had swap, they will just slow down.
You wouldn't run Windows without any swap. Why Linux?
Hamish
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