Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 20:27:30 +0200 (CEST)
From: "echo 'Rudolf Polzer'>/dev/null" <rpolzer AT durchnull DOT de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 23:50:56 +0200
> > From: ISCH <rpolzer AT durchnull DOT de>
> >
> > But swap is needed (perhaps not that much for C).
>
> It depends on the amount of physical RAM.  If the machine has 16MB or
> more, it should need no swap space for 99.99% of C compilations.  I
> don't use C++ much, but I'd guess that 32MB will take care of nost C++
> sources as well.

I meant: 640k _and_ 5 MB hard drive. Where to swap?

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