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From: "Ihar 'Philips' Filipau" <filia@softhome.net>
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To: "Mr. James W. Laferriere" <babydr@baby-dragons.com>
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Subject: Re: [OT] No Swap. Re: [BUG 2.6.90-test5] kernel shits itself with
 48mb ram under moderate load
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Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
>>>Yes, it should. If you have 0.25GB, it can be copied into cache. If you
>>>have 0.125GB, it doesn't fit there.
>>
>>   So you want to say to effectively copy (or whatever) 40GB harddrive I
>>have to have 40GB of RAM? Ridiculous.
>>   Especially if copying is done in 4k lumps. (cp's default buffer)
>><sarcasm flavour=sad> Hopefully not everyone shares your opinion. </sarcasm>
> 
> 	If I am correct ,  I beleive he is speaking of the amount of
> 	MEMORY needed to cache the copy of file data WITHOUT a swap
> 	partit. or file .

   Probably I have misunderstood.
   Can you once again explain it to me - slowly.

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