[27205] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux cluster install defaults to 0.5G swap
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark W. Manley)
Thu May 15 23:01:27 2008
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 23:00:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Mark W. Manley" <mmanley@mit.edu>
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@mit.edu>
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I assure you that I didn't add more memory after the install. :-)
On Thu, 15 May 2008, Jonathon Weiss wrote:
>
> So, I notice that on a recently installed athena machine (currently up
> as delisle-r1, though not guaranteed to stay there) the install.log
> said:
>
> Physical memory is 3368332 kB, using a swap size of 6736 MB.
>
> and then promptly installed the machine with a 512M swap partition,
> not a 6G one. I believe this is due to the fact that in the default
> cluster install case the installer uses partitons.sfdisk from the
> install location in afs, and not any actuall values that it has
> calculated. While you could argue that a orrect fix for this is to
> supress the message about the swap size in the install.log I do think
> that the correct fix would have the swap size we approximately twice
> the memory as it said it was going to do.
>
> As an aside this machine actually has more memory than that (8G) but
> either more memory was added aftert he install, or /proc/meminfo
> mis-reported the value which is a much harder problem to solve.
>
> Jonathon
>
>
