On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 10:33:47PM +0100, Peter Berlau wrote: > 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? > > > hi Nico > Linux can per default only handle swap-partitions <= 128 MB > if You need more swap-space You must add more than one swap- > partition, > also You must check the priority of swap-partition > the actual limit of swap space is > (4096 -10) * 8 * 4096 = 133890048 bytes or 127.6875 Megabytes
The latest 2.1 kernels raise this to just shy of 2GB :-) You will need a new version of util-linux which I am about to do an NMU of - util-linux-2.9e-0.1 will be the name. Cheers Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Avoid tiresome goat sacrifices -=- use Debian Linux http://www.debian.org
