Re: ULTRA DMA HDD (swapping)

Eirik Mikkelsen (eirikmik@stud.ntnu.no)
Sat, 4 Oct 1997 19:46:32 +0200 (MET DST)


On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, greg wrote:

> < Eirik Mikkelsen said...
> <
> < This is not true anymore (hasn't been for a looong while). Very old
> < kernels only supported 16 Mb SWAP, but now it supports up to 128 MB (and
> < 16 of those - 2Gb should be enough for most people).
>
> Better watch it there. Wasn't it Gates who once said, "Who'd need more
> that 640K of memory?" :)

...unlike DOS we have the luxury of source-code at hand. It is a simple
hack to make linux accept more swapspace :-). (Hey, don't ask me how to do
it - I don't really know - but I read this in linux-kernel@you-know.where)

Eirik Mikkelsen - eirikmik@stud.ntnu.no