-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2005-07-24 at 22:40 -0400, John Perry wrote:
Ah. I was wondering about that, since I've read both truisms. For my own part, I've never been able to understand the rationale for the 2X truism, so I've done my own thing, which is 768MB RAM, 2GB swap partition.
I don't have time to answer today, so I'll just write a brief comment: Windows was limited to 2X, that was the absolute maximum. At least, that was so in win 3, and probably 95. That's the origin of that "rule of thumb". Linux is not so limited, you can add as much as you need (till the kernel complains, of course). For example, I have a system with 32Mb RAM and around 1 GB swap. I will not deny it is slow, but can't do anything else. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFC5TQ0tTMYHG2NR9URAsj5AJ9R1A7NxUDP8E4iDF42KNAjpnSTLQCaAxSq mxDGSdyUDdd778CEKCsuYGk= =yTpE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----