On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, greg wrote:
> < Eirik Mikkelsen said...
> <
> < This is not true anymore (hasn't been for a looong while). Very old
> < kernels only supported 16 Mb SWAP, but now it supports up to 128 MB (and
> < 16 of those - 2Gb should be enough for most people).
>
> Better watch it there. Wasn't it Gates who once said, "Who'd need more
> that 640K of memory?" :)
>
> If Linux is ever to be considered a player in the upper-midrange market
> then eventually having a single 2+GB swap partition would be very useful.
> As an example, all machines I admin at work have 4GB to 16GB swap partitions
> (over a striped RAID5, of course). Not so much for swapping but for
> savecores & crash analysis.
>
> I'd like to see Linux eventually start competing with the big boys like
> the DEC 8200/8500 and HP K, T, & V series machines.
>
> --
> Greg "Twotone" Spiegelberg - UNIX Systems Administrator & Hired Thug
> greg@netset.com - http://www.netset.com/~greg - Lucent Technologies
> What you never want to hear your sysadmin say...
> What do you mean you needed that directory?
>
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