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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 :-).

Erik
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