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SubjectRe: ULTRA DMA HDD
On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, pstewart 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.
>
> Hi there...
>
> I'm puzzled.... should no larger than 16MB? We run several 128meg swap
> partitions on a few of our boxes.... is this a bad thing? ;->
>
> Paul
>
No.... Way back in 0.99 real early, there was some limit because of
DMA buffers, etc., above 16 megabytes. Not so anymore. Your swap
space should (rule of thumb) be at least twice your RAM size, more
if you are using a lot of swap.



Cheers,
DJ
Richard B. Johnson
Analogic Corporation
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