Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Date | Thu, 15 Apr 1999 14:56:03 +0100 (BST) | Subject | Re: Static Swap |
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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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