From: "Ricardo Campos" corez23@linuxmail.org To: abower@thebowery.co.uk CC: main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: Re: [Alug] Re: previous post, Slackware 8 and Debian not `seeing' the CD drive Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 12:51:55 +0000
Not with 2.4.* kernels the vm needs either at least 2x swap to RAM or no swap at all, if not you may/will see performance problems on your
machines.
Hmm... methinks not. I have 512MB RAM (& kernel 2.4.3), and only 133 MB swap space (to use during the install), and find no performance problem in any way. In fact the opposite! There is simply no reason for me to use 1GB of swapspace! Besides which RAM is *much* faster than swap, easier to upgrade, and just stupidly cheap. I only spent £40 on 512MB (that's probably expensive now), & don't expect to upgrade anytime soon.......
Hmmm, I think this is the thread on linux kernel mailing list that covers it more in depth http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0101.3/1221.html but don't have time to read all of it... there is a comment somewhere in there though that shows that Linus should shoot himself though.
Adam
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