On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Ravindra Jaju wrote:
->Well, I'm not sure about the limit (I'll let you know if I come across
->that), but we do have a Linux machine with 512 MB RAM and 1 GB swap.
->That's our FTP server.
->
->So, that does work. ;-)
->
->(How can you under-estimate Linux!? ;-)
->
I confirm that ``linux can normally only handle 128MB swap partitions but
can handle eight of these'' and can also handle 64 of these partitions with
slight modifications. Dont ask me at the moment what are the modifications
etc. (Source From SuSE 6.2 Manual)
Though Ravindra says that he has a 1gb swap, he should check whether at
point of time his machine is using more than 128MB. May be the free command
output can give an indication.
Look at my server (hbcse) free command output:
hbcse:~> free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 127864 124816 3048 83056 12748 48548
-/+ buffers/cache: 63520 64344
Swap: 401508 512 400996
hbcse:~>
I do have more than 128MB Swap, but what you see is a combination of three
partitions: (entries from /etc/fstab)
/dev/sda9 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sdc7 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sdc8 swap swap defaults 0 0
where each of them is 128MB. I have 128 MB ram, as the table shows.
Nagarjuna
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Nagarjuna G.
Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, TIFR, Mumbai. INDIA
Phones: Office: 556 7711, 555 4712, 555 5242 Residence: 2155604
Fax: 091 - 22 - 556 6803
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
To subscribe / unsubscribe goto the site www.ilug-bom.org ., click on the mailing list
button and fill the appropriate information
and submit. For any other queries contact the ML maintener
