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Erik de Castro Lopo wrote in message <3696A430.3DB8A07A@zip.com.au>...
>Louis Hissink wrote:
>>
>> The following printout details a standard Redhat 5.2 install on a 4.3 G
>> IDE drive on a pentium Pro 180 with 128 Mb RAM using default workstation
>> option.
>>
>> The details are produced by being superuser, running fdisk, and
>> specifiying partition data
>>
>>                         st        fin          blocks     System
>> /dev/hda1        1          3               24066    Linux Native (boot)
>>
>> /dev/hda2        4        527         4209030    Extended
>> /dev/hda5        4         522        4168836    Linux Native
>> /dev/hda6        523     527            40131    Linux Swap
>>
>> Each block is 1024 bytes
>>
>> I have yet to see Linux activate the swap file.
>
>With 128M of RAM Linux probably won't need to use the swap file
>unless you're running X, with Netscape and gimp with a kernel compile
>going in the background.
>
>Microsoft is doing Linux a huge favour by writing huge memeory hungry
>apps. On the standard machine required to run NT these days, Linux
>absolutely flies :-).
>
yes, NT takes ages to load up, whilst Linux takes, 30 seconds ? X another ?
10.  Does help to have 32bit disk access enabled though speeds things up no
end.

Louis