Why 128Mb swap? (Re: Booting to >8GB...)

From: Mark Zealey (kernel@itsolve.co.uk)
Date: Sat Apr 29 2000 - 11:08:58 EST


On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Riley Williams wrote:

> 1. /dev/hda1 is a Linux Swap partition of just under 128M
> (not more than 130,950 blocks) in size, starting at
> cylinder 1.

Just a question, but why the 128M limit? That's not the limit on memory,
so it's not about page allocation. I would gladly create 1*1Gb swap
partition, rather than 8*128Mb.

Cheers,

Mark Zealey
mark@itsolve.co.uk

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