[Nottingham] size of swap partition

[Martin]

Robert Hart wrote:

> ... The actual requirement depends on the version off the kernel
> you are running. There are recent kernel versions (early 2.4.x - I
> forget which exactly) which needed swap > RAM x 2 or no swap at all.
> 
> I'm pretty sure that this requirement has been relaxed, but it's still a
> fairly good rule of thumb. 


Does Linux require having a swap large enough to put a core dump into 
for debug a-la dozywin?

Martin

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