You your statement is factual (as you also mention the resource), then does it make
sense really alloting disk space the double the
RAM. As per your statement, if I have say 1GB RAM, either I make only 1 128 MB RAM and
save on disk space or I've make 16 such
partitions to have "effective use of swap space" !!
Is that correct nagarjuna ?
"Nagarjuna G." wrote:
> 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
>
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