Re: swap space and memory
I think you are right nate. When I started with Linux a couple years
ago, the 2.0 series was current (like 2.0.36 or something). It was
then that I read in a how-to that even if you make a really big swap
partition, only 128MB would be used.
Last night I tried to confirm this with my current 2.2.16 kernel but
was able to use all 244MB available.
-D
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 12:41:33AM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote:
> did you install this on debian 2.1? or anything using the 2.0 kernel?
> from what i remember this was a kernel 2.0 limitation. 124MB
> reported by the system is normal. 124*1024=126,976kB , add
> some more for the space the kernel takes up when it loads into
> memory and any memory used by modules when the system loads
> and you have 128MB. also bios settings such as shadow can
> effect how much memory is available.
>
> nate
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