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From: Andrei Slavoiu <ansla80@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] <OT> How many GB for / partition?
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 15:30:43
Message-Id: 20060223152257.88904.qmail@web31605.mail.mud.yahoo.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition? by jarry@gmx.net
1 --- jarry@×××.net wrote:
2 > A couple years ago I got answer from HP, where they
3 > said with hp-ux:
4 > total memory = physical memory + (swap - physical
5 > memory)
6 This of course is equivalent to:
7 total memory = swap
8 I'm not sure, but I think Windows NT also uses this.
9 So practicaly the will be no memory allocation, but
10 "swap allocation". And the RAM is used just as cache
11 (for either files or swap).
12
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