Mark Barnes wrote:
I don't think that much swap in a single partition is being fully used. 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.
In older kernels on i386 boxes at most 128MB could be used. A swap partition larger than that was just wasting space.
More recent kernels (>=2.1.117) however allow upto 2GB per partition on i386.
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