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On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 09:44:08PM +0200 I heard the voice of
Sami Halabi, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> what count for little, and what count for huge.

Off the top of my head, I'd say less than 1 gig (maybe 2) or more than
256.  With very little, you may need to start looking at some of the
i386 tuning to things to scale back.  But anywhere in the middle the
defaults should work fine (I'm sure there are gains to be had from
working at tuning, but probably not huge and probably very dependent
on your particular hardware and workloads).


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