Carlos, et al -- ...and then Carlos E. R. said... % % On Wednesday, 2017-11-29 at 15:16 -0500, David T-G wrote: % % >...and then Wol's lists said... % >% % >% On 29/11/17 14:12, Carlos E. R. wrote: % >% >The rule of "twice the ram" was a Windows 3 rule. And it was a ... % >% Try running a *vanilla* early 2.4 series kernel with swap == ram. As % >% soon as the system even *touches* swap IT WILL CRASH. % >[snip] % > % >In fact, try running a nice old SunOS 4.0 UNIX or, I think (but am not % >sure) even classic ATT v7. The 2x rule is *very* old. % > % >It was explained to me as the system first loading into memory a copy % >of the executable and then running it from there, ostensibly to avoid ... % % I never heard of that static and running copies theory. Certainly % not true for Windows 3. [snip] Yeah, that was from a UNIX context. I never did any digging into the question, not least since I was still new and starry-eyed and trying to wrap my head around this weird :-) UNIX stuff. It was years before I was at the point of setting up my own first system and laying out partitions, at which point I simply took 2x (a whole 1/2 G, if memory serves :-) like I had "always" been told. And so the legend continued... Happy Holidays :-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org