Messages in this thread |  | | From | Bob Lanning <> | Subject | Re: ext2 problems on fast-wide SCSI-2 | Date | Wed, 8 May 1996 10:58:05 -0700 (PDT) |
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---- As written by root@baroque.co.uk: > > On Sat, 4 May 1996, Mishelle Bradford wrote: > > > > > > > > > It's a P150 (Tyan Tempest II) with 64MB RAM, a DPT PM2124W Fast/Wide > > > SCSI-2 controller, a Fujitsu M2934QA 4GB F/W SCSI-2 drive that's been > > > partitioned to have sda1 as a 300-odd MB root partition and sda4 as a > > > 32MB swap partition, and a 3c595 Ethercard. > > > > > > > Swap partitions can only be a max of 16MB in size, last I heard, and there > > can be a total of 8 swap partitions. > > Quick question here. I have been using a swap size of 70MB for the last > 2 months. It has worked perfectly with no problems, although with 32 MB > of RAM, I rarely exceed 10 MB of swap usage. Am I looking for trouble > here or is the swap size able to actually be larger than 16MB? I haven't > tried this large swap with any kernel before 1.3.8x, so is that the > reason it has worked for me? > > _______________________________________________________________________ > Mike Wangsmo, Graduate Student wanger@fubar.cs.montana.edu > Dept. of M&IE, MSU http://www.cs.montana.edu/~wanger > Bozeman, MT 59717 (406) 586-0690 > "May the Force be with you, always" > > > I have been running with 118M of swap space (I dedicated a drive for swap) for the last year. I have 32M of memory. I had played around with running about 10 xboards playing themselves. Each xboard starts 2 gnuchess processes. Each gnuchess process consumes about 9M of memory. (talk about thrashing :) -- Robert Hajime Lanning "It's the FROSTING!" The opinions expressed here are not mine, nor are they anyone else's. lanning@tidbit.fhda.edu <--for fun && for profit--> lanning@cup.hp.com
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