From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 19 Aug 2001 12:40:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 19 Aug 2001 12:40:11 -0400 Received: from mail.mesatop.com ([208.164.122.9]:3597 "EHLO thor.mesatop.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 19 Aug 2001 12:39:54 -0400 Message-Id: <200108191640.f7JGe6e26578@thor.mesatop.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Steven Cole Reply-To: elenstev@mesatop.com To: "Eric S. Raymond" , Linux Kernel List Subject: Re: Swap size for a machine with 2GB of memory Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 10:39:48 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2.3] Cc: gars@lanm-pc.com In-Reply-To: <20010819024233.A26916@thyrsus.com> In-Reply-To: <20010819024233.A26916@thyrsus.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sunday 19 August 2001 02:42 am, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > The Red Hat installation manual claims that the size of the swap partition > should be twice the size of physical memory, but no more than 128MB. ----------------------------------------------------------------^^^^^ For the benefit of anyone finding this in the kernel archives and any future Linux technical historians, this 128MB swap partition limit was fixed by a patch submitted by Stephen C. Tweedie on 9 Jul 1998, and which appeared in 2.1.109 on 20 Jul 1998. Steven