Re: How to set up a Linux machine that occupies the minimum memory footprint ?
From: General Schvantzkoph (schvantzkoph_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 11/30/04
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Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 08:28:36 -0500
If you run out of virtual memory space Linux will kill processes, there is
nothing it can do to make a process smaller. The usual rule of thumb is to
have twice as much swap space as physical memory, i.e. if you have 4G of
RAM you have 8G of swap space, that gives you a reliable system. However
you never ever want to run programs that require more memory then you
have RAM. If a process exceeds the physical memory space it will start to
page and the performance will be awful.
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