Re: [TCLUG:6042] swap > 128M

[schewe@tcfreenet.org]

On 15 May, Gabe Turner wrote:
> I just found out something interesting when I repartitioned and reinstalled 
> my machine this weekend: I have 128M of physical mem and allocated a 256 Meg
> partition for swap space (I rip and encode mp3s almost constantly so the extra 
> memory helps).  I noticed when my mahcine was comming up that only 128M of my 
> swap space is being initialized on boot up.
> 

You can't have a swap partition larger than 128Mb.  You have to use
multiple swap partitions.  It's a limit set in the kernel.
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Jon Schewe 
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