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 -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .