partitioning HD for use of swap & for booting

Greg Lindahl lindahl at conservativecomputer.com
Fri Jun 1 09:55:47 PDT 2001


On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 09:37:04AM -0700, Nordwall, Douglas J wrote:

> I guess the question I have got to ask is if it is still practical
> to run with 2xmemory when you start reaching up into large memory? I
> assume this is only if you ever hit swap...

It's hard to buy a disk small enough that 2x memory is a problem. Or
you can run with no swap, which is what diskless people normally do.

-- g




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