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"Arttu V." <arttuv69@×××××.com> posted |
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fecdbac60907080910p1ac75f11pa686a0bb36dadc9f@××××××××××.com, excerpted |
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below, on Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:10:12 +0300: |
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> Or at least that's what it did to me last week when I was experimenting |
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> something utterly stupid with kernel memory settings on a box with 2GB |
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> physical RAM, 8 GB swap, /var/tmp/portage mounted on tmpfs with |
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> size=9000M, and trying to emerge openoffice -- while only having |
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> compiled a kernel which could handle a maximum of 4GB of memory ... :) |
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You had me laughing, but in all seriousness, that's a good test of |
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conditions many of us aren't likely to see very often. So at least we |
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know the failure mode, now, and know it doesn't fail the entire system, |
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which is more than at least I knew before. =:^) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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