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From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] plan 9 overcommits memory?
Date: Mon,  3 Sep 2007 20:47:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dbd9221d5b3458a23614c12e17866fb3@terzarima.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2fc8bf6f330b9a86ddb0f076ceb0cc9a@csplan9.rit.edu>

> I don't actually need the swap partition, it's just there... ummm... not
> sure why; I installed on this machine before I found out that swap is
> broken. And it's not that I *think* swap is broken; it's been confirmed

it worked adequately to cover minor shortfalls in memory, which could happen
in the best of machines.  now there is typically so much physical memory
it hardly ever is invoked on my systems, unless i'm burning a CD from ramfs
and get the numbers wrong.



  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-03 19:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-03  3:38 geoff
2007-09-03  5:35 ` Scott Schwartz
2007-09-03  6:05   ` Uriel
2007-09-03 13:33   ` erik quanstrom
2007-09-03 17:09     ` john
2007-09-03 17:17       ` Gorka Guardiola
2007-09-03 17:25         ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2007-09-03 17:30         ` john
2007-09-03 19:47           ` Charles Forsyth [this message]
2007-09-03 19:46         ` Uriel
2007-09-03 19:54           ` Charles Forsyth
2007-09-03 19:54             ` Uriel
2007-09-03 20:34               ` geoff
2007-09-03 20:16             ` erik quanstrom
2007-09-03 17:32       ` erik quanstrom
2007-09-03 17:39         ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2007-09-03 17:43         ` john
2007-09-03 17:45           ` john
2007-09-03 19:52             ` Charles Forsyth
2007-09-05  8:33         ` sqweek
2007-09-04  8:48       ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2007-09-03 18:13   ` geoff
2007-09-03 20:17     ` erik quanstrom
2007-09-03 20:48       ` geoff
2007-09-03 22:01         ` erik quanstrom
2007-09-03 22:43           ` Charles Forsyth
2007-09-03 23:51             ` erik quanstrom
2007-09-04  0:04               ` Charles Forsyth
2007-09-04 14:44                 ` erik quanstrom
2007-09-04 15:07                   ` Charles Forsyth
2007-09-04 15:18                     ` ron minnich
2007-09-04 15:18                     ` Charles Forsyth
2007-09-05  8:48                       ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2007-09-05 10:53                         ` erik quanstrom
2007-09-06  8:42                           ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2007-09-06 17:15                             ` Joel C. Salomon
2007-09-06 19:38                               ` ron minnich
2007-09-06 20:18                                 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-09-06 23:37                                 ` Steve Simon
2007-09-07  3:09                                 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2007-09-07  4:09                                   ` Bruce Ellis
2007-09-07  4:25                                     ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2007-09-07  4:37                                       ` Bruce Ellis
2007-09-07  4:43                                         ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2007-09-10 15:24                                         ` roger peppe
2007-09-07 10:55                                     ` erik quanstrom
2007-09-04 23:32                     ` erik quanstrom
2007-09-03 21:16       ` Charles Forsyth
2007-09-03 21:19         ` ron minnich
2007-09-03 21:41           ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2007-09-03 21:51           ` erik quanstrom
2007-09-03 13:21 ` erik quanstrom
2007-09-03 14:01   ` Sape Mullender
2007-09-03 14:32     ` erik quanstrom
2007-09-03 15:28       ` Sape Mullender
2007-09-04  4:32         ` lucio
2007-09-04  7:23 ` Dave Eckhardt
2007-09-04  8:48 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-08-31 11:41 erik quanstrom
2007-09-02 21:27 ` Russ Cox
2007-09-03  0:43   ` erik quanstrom
2007-09-04  8:47     ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2007-09-04 13:39       ` David Leimbach
2007-09-04 14:41         ` erik quanstrom
2007-09-04 15:54           ` David Leimbach
2007-09-04 17:37     ` sqweek
2007-09-04 18:10       ` ron minnich
2007-09-04 18:53         ` sqweek
2007-09-03  1:23   ` Scott Schwartz
2007-09-03  1:47     ` ron minnich
2007-09-03  2:11       ` erik quanstrom
2007-09-03  2:11       ` erik quanstrom
2007-09-04  8:48         ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2007-09-03  5:28       ` Scott Schwartz

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