I am going to install Debian on a system that may require alot of swap space. According to the Debian installation notes, Linux only uses up to 128MB of swap space. I've been also told that Linux can handle more. Which is correct?
There is a 128MB limit for each swap area. You can have as many swap areas as you want; for instance, I have three 128MB areas, one on each of my three hard drives: blp:/raid/home/blp$ free -t total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 127924 114392 13532 28972 41152 42572 -/+ buffers/cache: 30668 97256 Swap: 387780 40 387740 Total: 515704 114432 401272 blp:/raid/home/blp$ You can see that I indeed have more than 128MB swap :-) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .