22 Jul
2001
22 Jul
'01
3:15 p.m.
Sometime on Jul 21, Rajen Parekh assembled some asciibets to say:
any problems even when there is/was excessive use of swap. So, I am not sure if it really matters if swap should be 2x the RAM amount. Rather I would think that the lesser the RAM the more the swap. In
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No. That will cause thrashing. The system will think it has more memory than it actually does. Too many processes will get loaded, and then they'll start swapping uncontrollably.
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