From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FCIQV-0006aB-7e for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 15:30:43 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1NFSqZu021198; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 15:28:52 GMT Received: from web31605.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web31605.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.198.151]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1NFMvi8027839 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 15:22:58 GMT Received: (qmail 88906 invoked by uid 60001); 23 Feb 2006 15:22:57 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=hRVIU2Aqi4NVxNPzHx5j4eHVVdN1W0wpaojVCliAv9NeY2oSSRF2qiCXhfxcO3PWiyseAGg/sr1eWFQ1pK5e5+oji5Rh8DwHCqIwc/bjZ/4Rj8STKJaDIHLCUhhudkdqdC0Q+otjYD2wVM0Q3QnFEUKp1ZVqf2sAAdxELlDK1fY= ; Message-ID: <20060223152257.88904.qmail@web31605.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [82.77.8.91] by web31605.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 07:22:57 PST Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 07:22:57 -0800 (PST) From: Andrei Slavoiu Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition? To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <22868.1140706420@www080.gmx.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 7acd7673-4c1b-4041-b8dc-faa0c4abc054 X-Archives-Hash: 892f85c8a80f958c9f5def34e6cddf3c --- 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). __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list