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Re: OT (slightly) swap limits



On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 06:40:25 +0200
Thierry Chatelet <tchatelet@free.fr> wrote:

[snip]

> Another idea would be to ask the question on the d-i mailing list. I noticed 
> that, if you choose to let it do an automatic partitioning of the disk, it 
> will size the swap partition according to ram and not to disk size. So, 
> someone there must know the magic formula.

Frans Pop (of the Install Team) told me that:

> Guided partitioning sets an upper limit of 300% memory size for swap 
> partitions. It is true that that is somewhat high for system with a lot 
> of internal memory. However, it does not do any harm either.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=410328

> Thierry

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