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 13:53:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 19 Aug 2001 13:53:12 -0400 Received: from mail.mesatop.com ([208.164.122.9]:26125 "EHLO thor.mesatop.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 19 Aug 2001 13:52:59 -0400 Message-Id: <200108191753.f7JHr8e27206@thor.mesatop.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Steven Cole Reply-To: elenstev@mesatop.com To: Luigi Genoni , "Eric S. Raymond" Subject: Re: Swap size for a machine with 2GB of memory Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 11:52:50 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2.3] Cc: Linux Kernel List , In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: 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 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