Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.4 and 2GB swap partition limit | Date | Mon, 30 Apr 2001 19:14:39 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> > The swap I have is 2 partitions, one on each drive both with a priority of > > 0. Personally, I like the way it's done on my box. > > So you've spent almost $200 for RAM, and refuse to spend $4 for 1Gb of > swap space. Fine with me.
Stupid argument. Very stupid argument. Take a 16Gb server. You now want to buy 64Gb of hard disk for the swap. Only because of partition limits you'll beed at least 2 disks entirely dedicated to it, which also means a controller a larger PSU and a bigger case.
The swap behaviour of 2.4 is a bug.
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