From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 26 May 2001 20:01:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 26 May 2001 20:01:16 -0400 Received: from zeus.kernel.org ([209.10.41.242]:20146 "EHLO zeus.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 26 May 2001 20:01:02 -0400 Message-ID: <20010525203944.B15304@bug.ucw.cz> Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 20:39:44 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Scott Anderson , David Weinehall Cc: Rik van Riel , Mike Galbraith , "Stephen C. Tweedie" , Ingo Oeser , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac10 In-Reply-To: <20010520235409.G2647@bug.ucw.cz> <20010521223212.C4934@khan.acc.umu.se> <3B0BF8B6.D7940FA3@mvista.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93i In-Reply-To: <3B0BF8B6.D7940FA3@mvista.com>; from Scott Anderson on Wed, May 23, 2001 at 05:51:50PM +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > > IMVHO every developer involved in memory-management (and indeed, any > > software development; the authors of ntpd comes in mind here) should > > have a 386 with 4MB of RAM and some 16MB of swap. Nowadays I have the > > luxury of a 486 with 8MB of RAM and 32MB of swap as a firewall, but it's > > still a pain to work with. > > If you really want to have fun, remove all swap... My handheld has 12MB ram, no swap ;-), and that's pretty big machine for handheld. Pavel PS: Swapping on flash disk is bad idea, right? -- I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care." Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org