From: Andrei Slavoiu <ansla80@yahoo.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] <OT> How many GB for / partition?
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 07:22:57 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060223152257.88904.qmail@web31605.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22868.1140706420@www080.gmx.net>
--- jarry@gmx.net wrote:
> A couple years ago I got answer from HP, where they
> said with hp-ux:
> total memory = physical memory + (swap - physical
> memory)
This of course is equivalent to:
total memory = swap
I'm not sure, but I think Windows NT also uses this.
So practicaly the will be no memory allocation, but
"swap allocation". And the RAM is used just as cache
(for either files or swap).
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-23 11:07 [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition? joaoemanuel1981
2006-02-23 12:04 ` jarry
2006-02-23 13:55 ` Uwe Thiem
2006-02-23 14:05 ` John Jolet
2006-02-23 14:30 ` Dave Nebinger
2006-02-23 16:03 ` Richard Fish
2006-02-23 16:12 ` Dave Nebinger
2006-02-23 18:07 ` Alexander Skwar
2006-02-23 19:38 ` Uwe Thiem
2006-02-23 14:45 ` Abhay Kedia
2006-02-23 14:53 ` [gentoo-user] <OT> " jarry
2006-02-23 15:22 ` Andrei Slavoiu [this message]
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