Re: Byte blasts Linux?

Marc Lehmann (pcg@goof.com)
Wed, 9 Jun 1999 00:18:30 +0200

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On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 12:47:03AM +0000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I certainly always advocate having some swap-space: it makes the "uhhuh,
> I have too little memory" case degrade much more gracefully..

yes, with some swap space the box swaps to death, while without swap it
simply locks hard ;)

(sorry, I couldn't resist ;)

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