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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:47537 comp.os.386bsd.questions:3715 comp.windows.x.i386unix:2437 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!caen!batcomputer!not-for-mail From: mdw@TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.windows.x.i386unix Subject: Re: SUMMARY: 486DX2/66 for Unix conclusions (fairly long) Date: 11 Jul 1993 21:38:30 -0400 Organization: Linux. It's not just for breakfast anymore. Lines: 21 Message-ID: <21qfam$htg@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU> References: <21k903$3q4@GRAPEVINE.LCS.MIT.EDU> <PCG.93Jul12003233@decb.aber.ac.uk> <CA0zHp.CqK@unixhub.slac.stanford.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: theory.tc.cornell.edu In article <CA0zHp.CqK@unixhub.slac.stanford.edu> ralph@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Ralph Becker-Szendy) writes: >In article <PCG.93Jul12003233@decb.aber.ac.uk> pcg@aber.ac.uk >(Piercarlo Grandi) writes: >>On the other hand Linux does no swapping. >> >Nonsense. See man swapon, man swapoff, and man mkswap on any Linux >system. I was trying to run X with 4MB for a while, so I can testify >that Linux can swap a hell of a lot if needed :-) Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but Linux "swapping" is really "paging" to the hard drive. As far as I know images are not "swapped" to disk or rendered inactive; the "swap space" is actually used as "paging space". Therefore, calling it "swap" is probably a misnomer. If something has changed, someone please bonk me on the head with a large mallot. Thank you. mdw -- Matt Welsh, mdw@tc.cornell.edu Radioactive decay ain't what it used to be.