On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 13:27, Tom Duerbusch wrote: > One point that I seem to find when dealing with Linux memory. Just how > much?
> With the default Suse 8 distribution, I can IPL and do some work with > 16 MBs virtual, without a swap disk. With a swap disk, I have yet to > hit a large enough work load that I ran out of space. FTPs, gpg, text > editing, all seem to work fine with 16 MBs virtual. Perhaps performance > could be better, but, so far, the FTPs and gpg encriptions are basically > a single threaded workload (all running under Regina 'REXX'). I require 24M to IPL with the qeth drivers, but then they reserve 4M just in buffers. Long, long ago in the 2.2 days I remember wondering why penguinvm was running so slowly, and the answer was that we had IPLed it with 10M main store. In general, I give Samba servers with a couple hundred users about 64M. 48M is probably quite adequate, though, and 32M would probably be OK in a real-memory constrained environment. Adam
