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[ILUG] Out of Memory

[ILUG] Out of Memory

David Murphy drjolt+ilug at redbrick.dcu.ie
Tue Mar 7 00:05:57 GMT 2000


Quoting <20000306174710.L3473 at online.ie>
by "John P. Looney" <jplooney-ilug at online.ie>:

> Not quite true. Either 2.51 or 2.6 won't start CDE without at least
> 500k of swap. I have no idea why. It confused the hell out of me,
> till someone told me about it..

Ok, the precise truth is, an application can explicitly request a
chunk of swap space. Me, I think of CDE as an application you may run
on your Solaris box, but probably not a server, which may be hundreds
of miles away and probably doesn't have a head anyway.

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"That's a malicious rumour. I'll run over anyone who repeats it."
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