Apparently, though unproven, at 09:27 on Tuesday 18 January 2011, Mick did opine thusly:
> BTW, it used to be that the kernel would not (easily?) access more than > 128M of swap for some reason and multiple 128M swap partitions were more > efficient than a single larger space, but this has probably changed with > amd64 processors and modern kernels. That limitation was lifted a very very long time ago. I'm not sure when it happened it was so long ago. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com