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West Virginia Won't Release Broadband Report Because It Is 'Embarrassing' 183

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday March 19, 2013 @10:22PM from the i-just-bet-it-is dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Charleston Gazette is reporting that the state of West Virginia hired a consulting firm for over $100,000 to investigate the state's use of Federal stimulus money (which included the purchase of $22,000 routers for tiny buildings). Unfortunately, the state government is now refusing a FOIA request to release the firm's report. The reason? The findings 'might be embarrassing to some people,' according to Commerce Secretary Keith Burdette."

Comment Re:Not much, anymore... (Score 3, Insightful) 544

by toller8 on Tuesday August 29, 2006 @09:15PM (#16004097) Attached to: How Much Virtual Memory is Enough?

Different jobs, different needs....

Two of my (Linux) servers have lots of memory and lots of small processes so anything that does swap out swaps out quick. These don't use a lot of swap (512Mb?) and don't have gig sized processes to write into swap... so they don't really need the 2+ gig of allocated swap.

One other (Linux) server has big processes (1Gig or more) and when they have to swap out, watch the machine fall apart while the process is swapped out - it takes a while to write 1 gig of ram into swap! Since the process is large, swap needs to be large.... Just hope that server needs to have 3 or 4 multi gig processes swapped out....

So, YMMV! Know your machines and what *may* need to swap out and you can live on the edge and figure your minimum swap.... or you could be safe and boring and have x.5 times RAM... After all... who needs that critical app to run after memory gets tight and the kernel kills it cause it was the memory hog?

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