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Subject: Re: [9fans] plan 9 overcommits memory?
From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
Date: Mon,  3 Sep 2007 20:47:25 +0100
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> 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.