Messages in this thread | | | From | Steven Cole <> | Subject | Re: Swap size for a machine with 2GB of memory | Date | Sun, 19 Aug 2001 10:39:48 -0400 |
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On Sunday 19 August 2001 02:42 am, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > The Red Hat installation manual claims that the size of the swap partition > should be twice the size of physical memory, but no more than 128MB. ----------------------------------------------------------------^^^^^ For the benefit of anyone finding this in the kernel archives and any future Linux technical historians, this 128MB swap partition limit was fixed by a patch submitted by Stephen C. Tweedie on 9 Jul 1998, and which appeared in 2.1.109 on 20 Jul 1998.
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