Re: Swap fscked in 2.4.5?
"Geoffrey Romer" <gromer@hmc.edu> writes:
> > > I'm told that this is a bug in the 2.4 series- does anyone know if upgrading
> > > to 2.4.6 will help this problem at all? If not, are there any other
> > > workarounds?
> > >
> > >
> > One work around is to make sure that you have a swap partition at least
> > twice as big as physical memory. This has been just a rule of thumb prior
> > to 2.4, but seems to be pretty important now.
>
> No- the other way around, in fact. I have 256 meg RAM and 127 meg swap. Is
> there still a rule that swap partitions can be no larger than 127 meg? If
> not, I shall have to look into repartitioning...
Ther's no more 128M size limit on swap partitions with 2.4.x. I'm sure
there's a limit on the size of a swap partition but I've got a 2G one
and, other than apparently never freeing itself, it's been used right
up to the 2G size.
Gary
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