Re: 2.1.131 size limitations.

Khimenko Victor (khim@sch57.msk.ru)
Thu, 31 Dec 1998 04:40:58 +0300 (MSK)


In <Pine.LNX.3.95.981230085700.14030A-100000@chaos.analogic.com> Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com) wrote:
> I think having a swap-file that is smaller than physical RAM negates
> the true value of a swap-file.

Why ?

> It's probably time for the kernel and tools to allow a swap-file that
> is at least as large as the RAM that can be addressed (real, not virtual).

You could do this with latest tools and you always was able to use few swap
files. And I'm still completely can not understood at all why size of swap
supposed to be more then size of RAM.

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