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 1FCJ1e-0007JU-LI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 16:09:07 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1NG852D006634; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 16:08:05 GMT Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.203]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1NG3qTI002417 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 16:03:53 GMT Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 71so76708wra for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 08:03:49 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=EE4qj/Xi3fi8yAH9vtfl4dH3Q7cYdq/XrTzNTEf9WJCp/WXMYNnsap89Imc9peDzGH1TUIVZ5EtHHmGVJ1OAbvhCIn66Kx2kyNQSPeCPEu0nSuUYnEgRRJpGpVfRLZvbfBFtQdMLqLOR0J5B29wJkp8LkKgHwTXaSAaCeMzShmQ= Received: by 10.54.96.15 with SMTP id t15mr394275wrb; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 08:03:48 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.69.19 with HTTP; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 08:03:48 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <7573e9640602230803r4ca91fbx8cac9c94e1da4476@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:03:48 -0700 From: "Richard Fish" Sender: richard.j.fish@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition? In-Reply-To: <43FDC6FA.1060807@joat.com> 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-Disposition: inline References: <28958.1140696299@www077.gmx.net> <200602231555.18509.uwix@iway.na> <43FDC6FA.1060807@joat.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k1NG3qTI002417 X-Archives-Salt: 48563771-1cd3-4a5d-b3c1-a0a44c33b8a5 X-Archives-Hash: c4742fcf4d8361be065b1827f82698f9 On 2/23/06, Dave Nebinger wrote: > This is never true. Swap is *always* called for, and for a good reason. No, it isn't. For my single-user laptop with 2G of RAM, I actually prefer that the OOM kill any runaway process that is gobbling up RAM. My laptop disk (even at 7200rpm) is too damn slow for swap to be at all useful. The system _will_ be dead until swap is exhausted and the OOM kicks in anyway. The only reason I have a swap partition at all is for suspend2 hibernation. > Your example of having a real-time responsive app requiring memory > residence is a determining factor of how much physical memory you'll > need to keep the app resident. > > But the truth of the matter is this will not be your only app running on > the system. Throw some big memory hogs into play, i.e. an active X > session running locally and that remote X session you've started from > work, and pretty soon you can find yourself eating up that 1gb that you > thought would be fine. No one would ever place a real-time responsive app on a desktop system. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list