-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2005-07-25 at 15:01 -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
Actually, in Windows95 and forward swap was somewhat automatic. In Windows, SWAP was (and is) a file in the file system.
That's the same as it was in Win 3.1. It was a file, it could be fixed or automatic. Same thing :-)
I'm pretty sure the 2x (or 3x) rule of thumb is of Unix origin since we've been allocating swaps on Unix for quite a while before Windows knew what virtual memory was.
Yes, of course, I only said that the 2X rule was a windows thing, not that wirtual memory was a windows thing. It was not possible to allocate more: if you did, it warned you that it would not use it.
At one time, the Linux swap was limited to something like 768M, and you could not allocate more, but that was fixed long before the 2.2 kernel.
Right. And no so long ago, there was a limit per swap partition or file, I think it was 128 Mb. But you could allocate dozens of those spaces. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFC6DkZtTMYHG2NR9URAhirAJ0akgCVTEeNdYY0prv8RIJiAyqZLgCfRH8m H3nxUqdqPfQyeVQT0YE3yEU= =Gq4Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----