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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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      reply	other threads:[~2006-02-23 15:30 UTC|newest]

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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