Re: Memory overcommitting (was Re: http://www.redhat.com/redhat/)

Theodore Y. Ts'o (tytso@MIT.EDU)
Fri, 21 Feb 1997 18:37:01 -0500


Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 18:17:30 -0500 (EST)
From: "Steven N. Hirsch" <shirsch@ibm.net>

I think that Digital's choice of defaults for this is very strange! I am
sysadmin for several AlphaStation 5/600 333Mhz. boxes at work, and it took
a while to discover the trick of removing /sbin/swapdefault (symlink to
the primary swap partition in /dev).

Actually, it's very easy to understand. Digital is first and foremost a
hardware company, and they want you to buy more memory. :-)

- Ted