On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 06:18:04PM +0100, Nico De Ranter wrote: > > Howdy, > > I installed a PC with 128MB of RAM running Linux kernel 2.0.34 > I added the append="mem=128M" line to lilo.conf so the system > realy sees 128M of RAM. Since I normaly use the rule SWAP=MEM*2 > on SUN and SGI I created a swappartition of 256MB and did mkswap > and... got only 130MB. Why can't I use 256MB of swap?
1. Do you really need that much swap space? I have 48M RAM + 50 M swap and I never run out of memory (If I don't run extremely many apps at the same time), and if I occassionally need more memory, I set up a temporary swap file (It's a bit slower than a swap partition, but since I almost never need one, I can live with it) 2. If you feel that you really need that much swap, You need to set up at least two swap partitions since Linux has a limit of 128M per swap partition with a maximum of eight swap partitions. HTH -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ + Peter Granroth + Microsoft is NOT the answer + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + Microsoft is the question + + http://granroth.ml.org + The answer is NO + ------------------------------------------------------------------
