-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGE8tHpdyWzQ5b5ckRAvAVAJ9JCTDjIclgI6SUjMy8UYm3CY7iGwCfY5/1 mKdgOX++Cahp21/qhCUDq14= =tk1k -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----