Subject: re: requests install advice (partitions): Wallstreet PBG3 233, YDL2.1
From: Timothy A. Seufert (tas@mindspring.com)
Date: Sat Jan 12 2002 - 13:57:52 MST
At 1:57 PM -0500 1/12/02, david wright wrote:
>2. If I do have to repartiton (ugh), how much swap space do I want,
>what's the limit on the size of a swap partition, and will the
>installer let me make more than one?
>
>-Min size is 64 MB - Max size is 256 MB. they recommend 128 MB, 128
>wouldn't work for me (i used 256MB) and i only have 192 MB RAM. I think
>that 2x your RAM is left over from a few years ago but i really don't
>know ( how can max be 256MB and most people are running about that as
>standard RAM these days?)
The maximum swap partition size depends on what kernel version and
which processor family you use. 256MB was the limit with older PPC
kernels. That limit is long gone. Current kernels can have very
large swap partitions, something like 2GB on PPC I think.
-- Tim Seufert
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