Messages in this thread |  | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: no swap partition bigger than 16MB [YAP] | Date | 22 May 1996 17:56:52 GMT |
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In article <199605121615.MAA29751@huahaga.rutgers.edu>, David S. Miller <davem@caip.rutgers.edu> wrote: > > Contrary to that recomendation, I have a linux system that uses a > single 50 megabytes partition and never gave me problems. Maybe > because I never have to use more than 16 megabytes of it... > >That quote from Matt Welsch's book was transcribed some time ago, at >which point the statement was most likely true. I have filled all 3 >110mb swap partitions on my SS10 running Linux without any problems. >
Linux currently has a limit of 128MB for i386 (increasing as N^2 with page size -- it's 512MB for Alpha with 8K pages). This limit is starting to become a problem as well, and probably should be taken care of.
-hpa
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