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?
IIRC, Linux enforces a maximum swap partition size of 128MB. Of course, you can create 2 partitions. Adam Klein