> > Lots of time I see people in the mailing list with a very big swap
> > partition (i.e. 1 Gb). I have an Asus P2B-DS motherboard with two P2-400
> > and 256Mb ram. Do I need such a big swap partition for SMP? When I try
> > to make a big swap partition than the mkswap commands returns with
> > "swapspace truncated to ..." Is there a maximum from around the 100 Mb
> > for this commend? If I want / need a big one, what command do I have to
> > use?
>
> On the x86 architecture, your swap partition size is limited to 128 MB.
> You can, however, have multiple swap partitions. There is absolutely no
> point in makign a swap partition of more than 128 MB, as everything after
> the first 128 MB will be wasted.
Not as of 2.2 (and late 2.1) you can have upto 2gig swap partitions, you
will need a new version of linux-utils to mke them thou. Redhat 6.0 and
Slackware 4.0 ship with tools to make upto 2gig swap partitions.
As to if you need it, the main reason that most smp users have massive
amounts of swap is that they are doing memory intensive work on the
machine. It really depends on what you want to do. I have 128mb RAM /
2x256meg swap and currently (running netscape, X, gimp, Star office, etc)
it looks like this:
tim@night-shade:~> free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 126864 123256 3608 40820 14128 46196
-/+ buffers/cache: 62932 63932
Swap: 522064 3208 518856
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