Mark Barnes wrote: > I don't think that much swap in a single partition is being fully > used.
Nobody, but nobody, needs 1GB for a swap :-) (somebody will now tell me how they DO :-) ) > 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. That is true only of 'old-style' swap spaces. From man mkswap: "an old style swap area can describe at most 8*(S-10)-1 pages used for swapping. With S=4096 (as on i386), the useful area is at most 133890048 bytes (almost 128 MiB), and the rest is wasted". Note that even then, that only applies to systems with a 4K page size. I have a 126MB and a 300MB partition, then I use swapd to create 64MB swap files as needed, and when doing Oracle installs I have fully used both of the partitions plus 3 or 4 swapd files. Since the Oracle install fails completely silently if it runs out of memory, I've needed to keep a close eye on the swap use. -- derek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
