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From: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
Cc: Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org>,
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Subject: Re: swap & huge mem systems
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On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Erik Trulsson wrote:

[snip]
ET> Minimal swap if you want to be able to catch core dumps: Physical RAM
ET> size + 64K
ET>
ET> Personally, in your situation I would probably configure enough swap to
ET> be able to catch a core dump and not much more, i.e. slightly more than
ET> 1G swap.

BTW, is it safe to create _interleaved_ swap totally sized slightly above
the amount of physical RAM? I mean, is core writer interleve-aware, or
does it need the first swap partiton large enough?

Sincerely,
D.Marck                                   [DM5020, DM268-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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