On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 04:33 -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 07:21:20AM +0000, Alexis Huxley (ahuxley@gmx.net) wrote: > > On 2004-10-21, Gilbert, Joseph <jgilbert@insuresuite.com> wrote: > > [snip] > Oh, and why 2-3x RAM to start? Because you can add memory to a system > pretty easily. Repartitioning to add swap is considerably more > difficult (though you can also add swapfiles rather than partitions). > So overcommit to swap when you build your system. Plan to grow into > it. And you'll find that applications and user expectations *will* > expand to fill available memory expansion slots. Using kernel 2.6, that's exactly why I decided to use swap files. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I wish the USA could get out of the UN. But a forum where governments can talk is too useful. The next best thing is to only pay a fraction of our dues. Or find a better forum.
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