Re: [Debian] max. swap size?

[Oleg Krivosheev <kriol@fnal.gov>]

   Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 18:18:04 +0100 (CET)
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   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?

Swap partition size is limited to 128M, but you can have
up to 16 of them. Just create 2*128M partitions and you're
set...

OK

ps Do you really need 256M swap?