Re: Debian PC Requirements

[Jason Chambers]

Mark Barnes wrote:
> I don't think that much swap in a single partition is being fully
> used.  As I understand it, linux can use a maximum of (I think) 128 mb
> per swap partition.  If you want more than 128 mb swap, you'll need to
> create additional swap partitions.  This doesn't really get at your
> performance problems, but no more than 128 mb out of that huge swap
> partition can be used.

In older kernels on i386 boxes at most 128MB could be used.  A swap 
partition larger than that was just wasting space.

More recent kernels (>=2.1.117) however allow upto 2GB per partition on 
i386.

'man mkswap' for the reasons why...

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Jason Chambers ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Leicester, England




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