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Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 09:37:22 -0400
From: Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org>
To: Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl>
Cc: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>,
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Subject: Re: 2.4 and 2GB swap partition limit
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> So you've spent almost $200 for RAM, and refuse to spend $4 for 1Gb of
> swap space. Fine with me. 

I put this much ram into the system to keep from having swap.  I still say
swap=2x ram is a stupid idea.  I fail to see the logic in that.  Disk is
much much slower than ram and if you're writing all ram to disk that's also
slow.

I have a machine with 256mb of ram and no disk.  It runs just fine w/o swap. 
Only reason I even had swap here is if I ran something that used up all my
memory and it has happened.

Since when has linux started to be like windows "our way or no way"?

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