Re: RH 6.2 install causes screen to explode

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Tobias" == Tobias Diedrich <ranma@example.com> writes:

    Tobias> Granted, that should have read: As far as I can remember
    Tobias> back the rule has...  And my memory might be deceiving me
    Tobias> too...

Well, I've never configured a system that dumped core in a panic until
very recently.  So, as Dmytry Kovalov points out, the rule probably
goes back way before Linux.

Interestingly enough, my NetBSD system has recently taken to telling
me I have an invalid dump because my swap is too small.

And as Scott Stone points out, a couple of years ago the price of
memory dropped low enough that people could afford enough RAM (>128MB)
that the stable Linux kernel could not handle that much swap.  That
period didn't last long, of course, but it was there.

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