Message-ID: <38B153EE.86F69EF0@pacbell.net> From: Steven Howe Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup Subject: Re: why the heck do we need swap? References: <3809491F.4E5FEA98@bill.com> <380A7468.DAD81D8F@billy.com> <38af874a.49368480@linuxbox> <88rhpu$4t6$1@proxy.fe.internet.bosch.de> boundary="------------BA686B2C7C35D93939B0CD01" Lines: 58 Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 07:04:15 -0800 NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.198.71.11 X-Complaints-To: abuse@pacbell.net X-Trace: typhoon-la.pbi.net 951145458 63.198.71.11 (Mon, 21 Feb 2000 07:04:18 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 07:04:18 PST Organization: SBC Internet Services Xref: newsread2.funet.fi alt.os.linux:49999 alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions:6149 comp.os.linux.misc:64167 comp.os.linux.networking:59421 comp.os.linux.setup:64441 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------BA686B2C7C35D93939B0CD01 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------ADECF7345E6C271405B892FD" --------------ADECF7345E6C271405B892FD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit That's a Linux v2.0.x limitation. 2.2 kernels are not limited that way. -- "At the beginning of the week, we sealed ten BSD programmers into a computer room with a single distribution of BSD Unix. Upon opening the room after seven days, we found all ten programmers dead, clutching each others' throats, and thirteen new flavors of BSD." --------------ADECF7345E6C271405B892FD Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit That's a Linux v2.0.x limitation. 2.2 kernels are not limited that way.

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"At the beginning of the week, we sealed ten BSD programmers into a
computer room with a single distribution of BSD Unix. Upon opening the
room after seven days, we found all ten programmers dead, clutching each
others' throats, and thirteen new flavors of BSD."

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