Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Mar 1998 12:28:35 -0500 (EST) | From | "Mark H. Wood" <> | Subject | Re: Swap area: why not more than 128M each? |
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On Fri, 13 Mar 1998 p0thead@ooz.net wrote:
> Not to sound like a dork, but why edo you need a gig of swap? just curious > :)
Rule of thumb: swap >= 4 * physical_memory
> On Fri, 13 Mar 1998, Werner Almesberger wrote: > > > Gabriele Paciucci wrote: > > > Yes but you can use more 128M partitions!!! > > > > Sigh, yes ... > > > > Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System > > /dev/sda1 1 1 7 56196 83 Linux native > > /dev/sda2 8 8 24 136552+ 82 Linux swap > > /dev/sda3 25 25 41 136552+ 82 Linux swap > > /dev/sda4 42 42 526 3895762+ 5 Extended > > /dev/sda5 43 43 59 136552+ 82 Linux swap > > /dev/sda6 60 60 76 136552+ 82 Linux swap > > /dev/sda7 77 77 93 136552+ 82 Linux swap > > /dev/sda8 94 94 110 136552+ 82 Linux swap > > /dev/sda9 111 111 127 136552+ 82 Linux swap > > /dev/sda10 128 128 144 136552+ 82 Linux swap > > /dev/sda11 145 145 210 530145 83 Linux native > > /dev/sda12 211 211 526 2538270 83 Linux native > > > > That's a machine with 256 MB RAM. I always feel extremely stupid when my > > auto-install script starts creating partitions in the two-digit range > > just because of that darn swap limit ...
-- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mwood@IUPUI.Edu One more time: a (level-2) switch is a bridge. A "level-3 switch" is a router. Deal with it.
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