From: Steven Cole <elenstev@mesatop.com>
To: Luigi Genoni <kernel@Expansa.sns.it>,
"Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <gars@lanm-pc.com>
Subject: Re: Swap size for a machine with 2GB of memory
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 11:52:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200108191753.f7JHr8e27206@thor.mesatop.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108191916350.5840-100000@Expansa.sns.it>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108191916350.5840-100000@Expansa.sns.it>
On Sunday 19 August 2001 01:29 pm, Luigi Genoni wrote:
[snipped]
> On my ultrasparc linux with 4 GByte of RAM running 2.4.X kernels,
> I needed to add a 8 GB disk just for
> swap (16 partitions of 512 MB each one).
--------^^
Just curious, in linux-2.4.9/include/linux/swap.h line 11, we have:
#define MAX_SWAPFILES 8
Did you change this to 16, or does this not matter anymore?
This value is the same in 2.4.8-ac7.
Steven
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-19 17:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-19 6:42 Eric S. Raymond
2001-08-19 8:25 ` Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
2001-08-19 9:46 ` Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
2001-08-19 16:15 ` Ingo Oeser
2001-08-19 14:08 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-19 16:48 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-08-19 14:39 ` Steven Cole
2001-08-19 17:29 ` Luigi Genoni
2001-08-19 15:52 ` Steven Cole [this message]
2001-08-19 22:16 ` Luigi Genoni
2001-08-19 20:49 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-08-19 21:15 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-08-20 0:05 ` Kevin Krieser
2001-08-20 17:42 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-08-20 23:09 ` Kevin Krieser
2001-08-20 0:08 Andries.Brouwer
2001-08-21 23:14 ` Kurt Garloff
2001-08-24 12:45 ` Rogier Wolff
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