On a side note here.. I noticed that you have 256 Meg of RAM,..
and you want a large swap partition..
How large are we talking ? (no answer necessary here just
something to think about)
IMHO.. it would be better to get more memory if possible as disk
swapping is always slower than memory swapping...
if you are going to use multiple swap partitions, it is better
if they are not on the same drive and you have a SCSI
controller, as that will help increase swap performance
if you go with 2.2 you should be able to create a larger swap
space not sure what the limit is...but yes in 2.0 there was a
limit of 128Meg of RAM
IMHO..limits who needs them .. "no one will ever need more than
640k of RAM" .. can you guess who that quote is?
--- Tim Fletcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Lots of time I see people in the mailing list with a very
> big swap
> > > partition (i.e. 1 Gb). I have an Asus P2B-DS motherboard
> with two P2-400
> > > and 256Mb ram. Do I need such a big swap partition for
> SMP? When I try
> > > to make a big swap partition than the mkswap commands
> returns with
> > > "swapspace truncated to ..." Is there a maximum from
> around the 100 Mb
> > > for this commend? If I want / need a big one, what command
> do I have to
> > > use?
> >
> > On the x86 architecture, your swap partition size is limited
> to 128 MB.
> > You can, however, have multiple swap partitions. There is
> absolutely no
> > point in makign a swap partition of more than 128 MB, as
> everything after
> > the first 128 MB will be wasted.
>
> Not as of 2.2 (and late 2.1) you can have upto 2gig swap
> partitions, you
> will need a new version of linux-utils to mke them thou.
> Redhat 6.0 and
> Slackware 4.0 ship with tools to make upto 2gig swap
> partitions.
>
> As to if you need it, the main reason that most smp users have
> massive
> amounts of swap is that they are doing memory intensive work
> on the
> machine. It really depends on what you want to do. I have
> 128mb RAM /
> 2x256meg swap and currently (running netscape, X, gimp, Star
> office, etc)
> it looks like this:
>
> tim@night-shade:~> free
> total used free shared buffers
> cached
> Mem: 126864 123256 3608 40820 14128
> 46196
> -/+ buffers/cache: 62932 63932
> Swap: 522064 3208 518856
>
>
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