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Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 03:56:36 -0800
From: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>
To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc: Varshavchick Alexander <alex@metrocom.ru>,
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Subject: Re: maxusers and random system freezes
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Thus spake Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>:
> As a rule, swap should be at least physical memory size + 64K on
> any system that you need to be able to get a system dump from,
> since it needs to dump physical RAM.  If you are not worried about
> the machine falling over, then you can ignore that.

IIRC, the extra 64K are not required anymore for core dumps.

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