Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 4 Oct 1997 17:25:21 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Eirik Mikkelsen <> | Subject | Re: ULTRA DMA HDD |
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On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Nicholas J. Leon wrote:
> >Your Linux swap partition should not be any larger than 16 MB. You can set > >up two swap partitions for Linux, or more if you feel you will need them. > >I think the limit is 8 swap partitions. > > Why? (why no larger than 16) ?
This is not true anymore (hasn't been for a looong while). Very old kernels only supported 16 Mb SWAP, but now it supports up to 128 MB (and 16 of those - 2Gb should be enough for most people).
Eirik Mikkelsen - eirikmik@stud.ntnu.no
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