Slackware instalation issues

[erik burggraaf]

Well, I have 48 meg ram, and 96 meg swap.  According to this, this should
give me one kickass machine.  Smile.  btw, does anybody know where I could
pick up old hard drives on the cheep?  I realise this is probabley OT for
this list, but I want an extra 4 gig or something to use as data storage, so
I can use some of the audio programs, and maybe teach myself different kinds
of servers, http, ftp, print server and so on.
Thanks,
Erik
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Myrow" <amyrow at midsouth.rr.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2002 12:46 AM
Subject: Re: Slackware instalation issues


> That stuff about swap being twice the RAM is oudated information from the
> early days of BSD that somehow has survived as a sort of Urban legend in
> Linux.  The reason for that rule was that early versions of BSD required
> that you have the same amount of swap as RAM for the system to run at all
> because when a program started, it geve it as much swap as RAM.  Linux and
> most other modern operating systems treat swap like extra memory.  So if
> you have 128M of swap plus 128M of RAM, it acts as though you have 256M of
> memory and swaps only when main memory runs low.
>
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