On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Jan Krupa wrote: > I have Pentium II, 512 Mb RAM, Linux debian 2.0, > kernel 2.0.36 > I need quite big swap, so I created 7 swap partitions > hda3,hda5,...,hda10, as seen below: [...] > When the system is loading it prints that the 7 (seven) > sawp partitions are activating, and that's mean that I have > 860Mb of swap. > > Unfortunately when the mathematica3.0 is running, > after using ("consuming") all RAM memory it can only > use up to 460Mb of swap and then it prints message: > 'out of memory' and exits the calculations
Hmmm. You might want to ask on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. That's where the real kernel gurus hang out. I just saw today that the 2.0.x kernels have problems with more than 960MB of RAM. The 2.1.X kernels do better. The figure 512+460=972 is so close to that 960 number that I wonder if they're related? I also know that Linux can't use more than 128MB of swap per partition, but that doesn't seem to be your problem. I suppose you could see if maybe there's a bad spot in one of the swap partitions - run mkswap again or something. Beyond that, I can't really offer any suggestions. If it's any consolation, I'm green with envy - I have a 486-100 with 64MB of RAM and 32MB of swap. :-> Sincerely, Ray Ingles (248) 377-7735 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Economies don't like step functions." - Dr. Leonard Bieman