On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 19:28:19 +1000
Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-Apr-10 18:45:53 -0700, Pete Slagle wrote:
> >When you have very limited physical RAM you need a lot of swap space.
> >When you have more than enough RAM you don't need any swap space at all.
> >For a given set of applications, as RAM increases you need less swap
> >space, not more. And vice versa.
>
> The key point here is "for a given set of applications". Whilst I
> could (in theory) attach 1GB swap to my 4MB 486 and run openoffice and
> mozilla, in practice, the performance would rapidly discourage me.
It might not be too bad if the 1GB of swap was to RAM and a small
processor pretending to be a fast disc.
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