[Gllug] Linux - big not small

Adrian McMenamin adrian at mcmen.demon.co.uk
Thu Aug 4 19:40:40 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 19:47 +0100, John Hearns wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 19:19 +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 19:15 +0100, Liam Smit wrote:
> > 
> > > I've heard that you should not go less than 1x your physical memory in
> > > case you need to dump it to disk.
> > 
> > Not really an option in the embedded world though. You might have no
> > disk at all!
> 
> Well, in that case you could swap to a RAM disk.

:)

In my experience swapping to nfs is a surefire way to bring down your
system

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