RE: [Debian] max. swap size?
> I installed a PC with 128MB of RAM running Linux kernel 2.0.34
> I added the append="mem=128M" line to lilo.conf so the system
> realy sees 128M of RAM. Since I normaly use the rule SWAP=MEM*2
> on SUN and SGI I created a swappartition of 256MB and did mkswap
> and... got only 130MB. Why can't I use 256MB of swap?
The size of any single swap file or partition is limited to 128MB.
Create two partitions of 128MB and swapon them both.
-Jon Burchmore
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