[Gllug] Linux - big not small

[John Southern]

On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 14:15 +0100, John Hearns wrote:
> Stressing that I'm not having a pop, is the meme

On Thursday 04 August 2005 14:24, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
> You can then use those skills to run Linux on everything from tiny
> systems[1] through embedded devices[2] all the way up to the largest
> supercomputers[3]!

Is this true?
Big pieces of metal must have something different, even if it is a limit on 
swap space.
Although, most can be learnt on anything, what are the things that are 
different, that being unable to buy a personal s390 I am not going to 
discover?

Actually, what is the limit with swap?
When memory was smaller say 32 or 64MB, the documentation always said swap 
should be twice the RAM. As Ram increases into the Gigabyte realms, is there 
a limit for swap?
Is there a reason for twice, why not x2.1 or x1.9 etc?

John
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