Re: [TCLUG:6042] swap > 128M

[Nate Carlson <natecars@infiniteloop.com>]

Hmmm, that's odd. I know 2.1.x supported it out of the box... I had a
512mb swap file running fine once. Could be they decided to drop the
feature..

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Nate Carlson
the infinite loop
natecars@infiniteloop.com

On Sun, 16 May 1999, Gabe Turner wrote:

> I'm using the 2.2.9 kernel... I didn't see anything in the kernel config
> about swap spaces/files over 128M...  How exactly do i get the kernel to
> recognize it?
> 
> Thanks again...
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> > Kernels 2.2 support swap space > 128mb. Otherwise, split the swap space
> > into multiple partitions and all will be will (you can have up to like 8
> > 128mb swap partitions on 2.0.x)
> > 
> > ----
> > Nate Carlson
> > the infinite loop
> > natecars@infiniteloop.com
> > 
> > On Sat, 15 May 1999, 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.
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Has anyone successfully gotten a swap space > 128M going?  I really don't want to repartition it.  That'll just make both partitons smaller.
> > > Thanks,
> > > 
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