Re: Swap area: why not more than 128M each?

David S. Miller (davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com)
Fri, 13 Mar 1998 06:15:18 -0800


Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 09:06:42 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@elf.ucw.cz>

> i just want to know why a swap partition can not be greater than
> 128M. Well, actually, it can be, but linux will only use 128M.

n different people (n>>3) already presented solutions for
this. Maybe its time for linus/davem to select one of them?

Someone posted a patch for 2.1.x and mkswap which will allow for swap
partitions larger than 128MB (all of which actually used ;-)

Stephen Tweedie said that he will roll those kernel level changes into
his next set of changes to the 2.1.x swaping code.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com

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