Yes, I seem to remember that from quite a while ago, actually got into a
small argument on comp.os.linux.setup. One rule of thumb that I remember
from those days is 2-1/2 times your physical memory, although in today's
world of large SO, Applixware, Netscape, that's probably not nearly enough
(unless you have 1 GB of physical memory :).
----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Jeremy Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 10:24 am
Subject: RE: redhat-digest Digest V00 #152
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Jeremy Bradley wrote:
> I read in a O'reilly book a while back that you should never make a swap
> partition over 120MB, why do they say that?
>
Older versions of the kernel did not support swap spaces larger than
128MB, the excess was ignored. This is not an issue in current kernel,
IIRC.
Bill Carlson
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