Re: Plain 2.4.5 VM... (and 2.4.5-ac3)

Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Wed, 30 May 2001 17:16:41 -0300 (BRST)


On Tue, 29 May 2001, Vincent Stemen wrote:

> I do not like that at all. I should not have to have to tie up a
> bunch of extra hard drive space for swap if I have plenty of RAM for
> 90% of my usage. During the 2.0.x days I was always able to run with
> a small swap or no swap at all

I don't like it either, but I have not had the time
yet to write a patch to fix this. Unfortunately the
rest of the world didn't seem to have time to write
a patch either so we'll have to live with the problem
for a while more.

Rik

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