Re: [RFC][PATCH] Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac10

David Weinehall (tao@acc.umu.se)
Fri, 25 May 2001 10:10:18 +0200


On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 05:51:50PM +0000, Scott Anderson wrote:
> David Weinehall wrote:
> > IMVHO every developer involved in memory-management (and indeed, any
> > software development; the authors of ntpd comes in mind here) should
> > have a 386 with 4MB of RAM and some 16MB of swap. Nowadays I have the
> > luxury of a 486 with 8MB of RAM and 32MB of swap as a firewall, but it's
> > still a pain to work with.
>
> If you really want to have fun, remove all swap...

Oh, I've done some testing without swap too, mainly to test Rik's
oom-killer. Seemed to work pretty well. Can't say it was enjoyable, though.

/David
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