Re: [Debian] max. swap size?
On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 06:18:04PM +0100, Nico De Ranter wrote:
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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?
IIRC, Linux enforces a maximum swap partition size of 128MB. Of course,
you can create 2 partitions.
Adam Klein
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