this is wrong. do a man mkswap. Old-style swap was limited to about
133mb, but the new style of swap partition has a limit of roughly 2 gigs.
For old (1.x at least) kernels, 128mb was the max, as you suggest. But
this changed (in 2.x I believe) to the new 2gb limit...
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On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Gordan Bobic wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Roland Beuker wrote:
>
> > Hi Linux SMP people,
> >
> > 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.
>
> If you REALLY need that much swap, you need to make several swap
> partitions, each 128 MB big. However, unless you are running a
> ridiculously fast disk array, having 128 MB of swap fill up will make
> things so slow that your system will become completely unuseable.
>
> Regards.
>
> Gordan
>
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