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Re: swap space limited?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Otto Hammersmith)
Mon Nov 18 21:26:58 1996
From: Otto Hammersmith <ohammers@cu-online.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 20:20:52 -0600 (CST)
In-Reply-To: <199611190019.AA137452756@gunsight.amd.com> from "David Reed" at Nov 18, 96 06:19:16 pm
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David Reed wrote:
>
> Perhaps I am confused; I think there is some size limit on swap which is
> smaller than I need...
>
> I configured hdc (a 490 Meg HD) into 2 partitions; hdc1 and hdc2...
You're right... IIRC a single swap partition is limited to 128 megs.
All you have to do is make 4 ~122 meg partitions. Keep in mind that
swap space should be a multiple of the memory page size (4k on x86,
donno about others). If you don't use a multiple of the page size,
you'll have some wasted space... though it's not more than 3k per swap
partition.
Good luck.
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-Otto
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