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From: Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au>
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> It is broken, it contains a bogo-vnode and it wastes RAM (it may be cheap
> but you shouldn't use 4 times the necessary RAM).

I don't know what a bogo-vnode is or how it affects the system in general.

Is RAM wasted if I have only one swap disk and set NSWAPDEV=1 ??

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