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Re: Virtual Memory in Linux

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Warren Melnick)
Fri Apr 26 16:42:20 1996

Date: 	Fri, 26 Apr 1996 14:48:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Warren Melnick <warren@fred.regatta.com>
To: Chai Harjo <h9304021@student.anu.edu.au>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199604260841.SAA24538@student.anu.edu.au>

Remember the swap partition that you set up when you installed Linux?  
That is your virtual memory.

:-)
Warren

On Fri, 26 Apr 1996, Chai Harjo wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I read about Solaris 2.5.1 (from www.sun.com) that can support 3.75 GB
> of virtual memory for applications and 250 MB of virtual memory for kernel.
> 
> Does anybody know how Linux supports virtual memory?
> Is there max limit imposed by Linux for the virtual memory?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Chai Harjo
> 
> 
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