Re: [IPCop-user] 1.4.13 memory / swap usage questions

[Renaud (R. O. <re...@ol...>]

On Friday 02 February 2007 18:41, my mailbox was graced by a missive
 from William Warren <hes...@em...> who wrote:

> >> The way the ipcop kernel is tuned..if you EVER touch swap you don't have
> >> enough ram..period.  Swap is never a substitute for actual RAM.

> > Crap.
> > Iif you have little memory, there is plenty swap activity during an
> > install , that completely disappears once the install is over and normal
> > use begins.

> If you have plenty of ram then the install never swaps and goes even
> quicker.

Besides the point; and anyway who but a complete fool would want to waste RAM 
(and money) just to speed up an install process that only takes place, at 
worst, once or twice a year ?
 
The net result of this foolish insistence on huge RAM for an IPCop box will be 
to mislead newbees into believing that they _do_ need the big RAM (which they 
dont, usually) and deter them from running the simple firewall they need on 
an old refugee from the rubbish dump, where IPCop excels.

Cheers,
 
Ron.
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