-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2007-12-22 at 16:29 -0800, Linda Walsh wrote: ..
This is why I made a comment about *not* using "swap" on a system -- if you are using swap on any regular basis (my threshhold is using swap, *anytime*, during 'normal' day-to-day usage), you are running applications that are "too big" for for your machine.
Tsk, tsk... I have a machine with 32 MiB of memory and about 1 GiB swap, and there were an application that filled more than half of it; and it run :-P The system is 7.3 and the app was yast (you, actually). It had a big memory hole (known bug). Without that much swap the update would simply crash, and new memory was no longer available for the machine. Still, it worked. A statement such as "any swap usage is bad" is not always correct for every body and every circumstance. It will not be as fast as having more ram, but... it works. Swap was designed for such a use. If designers thought that swap is a bad thing (R), they would not have designed kernel 2.6 with swap enabled. They would remove the swapping code and tell us to buy more ram instead. Hardware makers would be very happy. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHbciPtTMYHG2NR9URAsnEAJ0cOhIJd5oyjDBBCglqUtwGK8tJXgCfSOK1 Zi76fauIDD77N9loNYpiQAc= =R0o3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org