Subject: Re: Quick Setup Question [offtopic]
From: Rob Lineweaver (rbline@wm.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 27 2001 - 18:00:30 EST
>
> Linux (at least I know fer sure RH does) has a 128MB swap partition size, so
> using 256MB of swap space would require you make two separate partitions of
> 128MB each.
I know this is OT for this list, but the above statement is no longer
correct. The swap size limitation is a kernel issue (so it is not
RH-specific), and it has been lifted since the beginning of the 2.2.x
kernel series (according to this document, the limit is now 2 GB for most
architectures:
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/swaptip2.html). In other
words it has been fixed for years -- time to upgrade?
Rob Lineweaver
(happily running RH with a 300 MB swap partition, and Linux/PPC with 160
MB)
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