Re: 2.4 and 2GB swap partition limit

Jonathan Lundell (jlundell@pobox.com)
Sat, 28 Apr 2001 18:43:50 -0700

At 2:04 PM -0400 2001-04-28, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
>It is a disaster waiting to happen. Instead of having the offending
>process get killed, your machine could suffer extreme thrashing.
>
>Have enough swap for idle processes and no more.

Let's altogether now say "working set".

(Does Linux swap out text, by the way, he asks ignorantly?)

-- 
/Jonathan Lundell.
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