More on swap.

[Laurent Vaills]

Here is the correct link :
http://www.redhat.com/magazine/001nov04/features/vm/

Laurent


2007/2/28, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>:
>
> Yesterday in answer to the question as to how much swap is needed it was
> suggested to read the article at:
> http://www.redhat.com/magaszine/001nov04/features/vm/
>
> Well this is an interesting article but it tells one nothing about swap
> fits into the virtual memory structure for the 2.4 kernel in this case.
>
> Unfortunately , it is sort of complicated and as other people have said
> how much swap you need depends a good deal on what you are doing. Swap
> is an concept whose name was incorrectly borrowed from the OLD 370 and
> 360 IBM systems and to understand how it fits in to the VM system of the
> Linux kernel you need to read books like, "Linux Kernel Development,
> Second Edition", by Robert Love.
>
> In many cases you can run a Linux system without swap.
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