Re: seperate swap drive, was Re: [ADMIN] Speed problem

[Lincoln Spiteri]

> >     I have a rather large database as well (> 2 Meg of tuples). I thought
> > my system was souped up enough: PII/400 MHz (100 MHz bus) 256 Meg SDRAM,
> > 18 Gig SCSI harddrive, Red Hat Linux 5.1. However, my swap space (512
> > Meg) is on the same harddrive as the database (albeit on a separate
> > partition). It sounds like you are saying that this is a no-no.
> >

Hello,

Small question, doesn't linux only use around 128 Megs tops for swap
space? I thought I read this in a HOWTO somewhere.

Regards

Lincoln

STMicroelectronics
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PS. Thanks everyone for your response to my previous question regarding
images from data. I went for gnuplot 6.3 beta which supports a gif
terminal using the GD library.