Re: [Cooker] OT - Ram Management

[Leon Brooks]

Alexander Skwar wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 07:16:37AM +0800, Leon Brooks wrote:
>> If the swap space in use (your screenshot shows only 4MB, a trivial amount) gets
>> much above your RAM size, and note that you should have allocated at least twice

> Why?  If he isn't even using the 128 Megs he allocated, what good should it
> do to allocate >= 256 MB as you suggest?

Means his system can cope gracefully with an overload (e.g. netscape loads a bad
plugin and starts gobbling RAM like it's going out of fashion, 20 friends drop
in on the net and test his big new CGI script all at once while he's testing
video-editing software, whatever).

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