From: drew@juliet.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt) Subject: Re: Linux swapping Date: 29 May 1992 20:53:35 GMT
In article <9spkbss6@cck.coventry.ac.uk> csg203@cch.coventry.ac.uk (Bluebeard) writes:
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>I have 2megs of memory and 4megs of swap.
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>Does this give me a total of 6megs or only 4 ?
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>A unix expert, told me that the actual memory maps onto the swap, so only the
>swap space above the system memory is available.
>Is this true on linux ?
You "Unix expert" is hopelessly narrow minded in that he gave a
response appropriate for (I'll make an assumption here) 4.3 BSD.
4.4BSD, Linux, Mach, and inumerable other operating systems are not
bound by it.
2 megs real memory + 4 megs swap = 6 megs.
>I'm considering upgrading to 4meg of RAM, but as I've only got a 40meg
>partition, I wasn't intending to increase the swap space.
>
You don't have to.