On Fri, Feb 26, 1999 at 01:24:52PM +0100, Matej Vela wrote: > install.sgml, line 1558: > Note that Linux will not use more than 128 megabytes of swap on > a single swap partition. However, you can make multiple swap > This is not true for 64-bit machines (i. e. Alpha). From the Linux > FAQ: > Linux on machines with 8KB paging, like Alpha and Sparc64, support a > swap partition up to 512MB. The 128MB limitation comes from > PAGE_SIZE*BITSPERBYTE on machines with 4KB paging, but is 512KB on > machines with 8KB paging. The limit is due to the use of a single page > allocation map. Note that this is also not true for the recent 2.2.x kernels. I don't think they still have a limit on the swapfile that is likely to be exceeded when installing a machine. Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the "Plug" almost always works. --unknown source
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