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On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 04:44:21PM +0100, Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 12:26:49PM -0300, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 04:48:05PM -0300, Antonio da Silva Martins Junior wrote:
Well, on old unix systems (Solaris, AIX), if you didn't have swap at least the double of RAM you can't use all your RAM.
But, back then 64Mb RAM was a lot of RAM.
Can't use all RAM ? Are you sure about that ?
On OLD systems, yes. You'd be limited by swap, not ram.
Well, I really can't say how things were before AIX 3. So if you are talking about AIX 1 or 2, I'll just rest my peace.
I clearly remember (Linxu and AIX on this one) that if you had more than double, you would not use all your SWAP. RAM is always accessible ...
That always depends on the workload, but I prefer to have processes being killed by OOM instead of having the machine thrashing about. So I usually don't use more than 1GB.
Oh, but that is what we have today. Today neither limits apply. Only common sense, which is what you are saying (OOM vs thrashing).
- -- Rodrigo Barbosa "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns)