Re: using RAM above 64 Mb as a swap area
On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 01:12:15PM -0400, Shaleh wrote:
> Christopher, I think the RAM/swap idea is a bad one. More productive
> would be making your swap partition at least 128mb. Then you can swap
> all of your memory. (Although why you are swapping on 128mb is beyond
> me). Also the 2.1.x series of kernels has done a LOT of work on large
> mem handling. Try a newer kernel and see of that helps.
I think you missed the point -- the RAM above 64mb is slow enough
to be unusable for normal RAM work. Using it for swap lets you make
some use of it; it'll be much faster than disk.
Hamish
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