[vox-tech] can YOU be certified?!?

Micah Cowan vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Sun, 21 Jul 2002 14:59:30 -0700


Ryan writes:
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 > On Sunday 21 July 2002 12:57 pm, Micah Cowan wrote:
 > > Ryan writes:
 > >  > The reccomendation are often double your RAM. I have a 2 gig partition
 > >  > plus another 32 64MB swap files that are created as needed by swapd
 > >  > (http://freshmeat.net/projects/swapd/) And I only have 256MB of ram.....
 > >
 > > Not so much anymore - IIRC, most people don't need more than 128M
 > > swap, regardless of RAM.
 > >
 > > Having said that, I'll mention that I currently have 512M swap;
 > > because LokiGame's Rune's stooopid memory management requires you to
 > > have a ton of swap.
 > >
 > > -Micah
 > 
 > Mozilla can allocate severaly hundred megs of swap if you try to view a few 
 > hundred good sized images.
 > 
 > For example; http://unicornjelly.com/megamanga2.htm (not responsible for 
 > memory exaustion)

However, if you have 512MB memory, you're not really justified in
getting 512MB swap...

-Micah