On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 10:09:43AM -0400, Claude Marinier wrote:
> A few questions for the list.
> 
> 1) Does the system on the boot floppy use any swap space at all?

boot.fs doesn't. I think boot-small and/or boot-tiny do, one a swap
partition has been created.

> 
> 2) Is there a lower limit on swap space for normal systems? The boot
>    floppy may have an unusual system.

No, you can run without swap space at all if you want. It's just that sometimes
it convenient to have a core dump from a crash.

> 
> 3) Is there a document out there with more intelligent quidelines than
>    'four times physical memory'?

don't know :)

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