On Fri, 5 Dec 1997 23:09-EST 
 "Robert.V.Baron" <rvb@gluck.coda.cs.cmu.edu> wrote:

 > 1. I think that most people do not want crash dumps.  (we need a
 >    survey.)

 > 5. swap is funny.  I buy memory not to swap period; not to swap larger
 >    programs.  I think that there should be some limit on swap to 64Meg
 >    so large systems don't get large swap.

...except for those of us who DO want crash dumps, the dump partition
(typically the first swap partition) must be at least as large as phys
RAM.

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