Re: [Debian] max. swap size?
On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 06:18:04PM +0100, Nico De Ranter wrote:
>
> Howdy,
>
> 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?
1. Do you really need that much swap space? I have 48M RAM + 50 M
swap and I never run out of memory (If I don't run extremely many
apps at the same time), and if I occassionally need more memory,
I set up a temporary swap file (It's a bit slower than a swap
partition, but since I almost never need one, I can live with it)
2. If you feel that you really need that much swap, You need to set
up at least two swap partitions since Linux has a limit of 128M
per swap partition with a maximum of eight swap partitions.
HTH
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