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SubjectRe: Static Swap
Hi,

On Wed, 14 Apr 1999 09:02:13 -0500, Matthew Vanecek <mev0003@unt.edu>
said:

> Is there any reason for making the swap space on a primary partition as
> opposed to an extended partition?

No, you can put it anywhere you want (although there are other
considerations: partitions near the outide of the disk tend to be
faster, and partitions in between other active partitions lead to
lower average seek times).

> I've got two swaps for a total of 254M, both on extended partitions
> on my only HD in the machine. 128M of that goes exclusively to DB2
> beta, of course, and everything seems to working cheerfully.
> Unless, of course, we've somehow managed to get rid of the 128M
> limit on swap partition size with the 2.2.x kernels?

Yes, we have.

Cheers,
Stephen

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