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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:13659 comp.os.linux:57420 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!torn!utnut!utcsri!turing.toronto.edu!ruhtra Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.linux From: ruhtra@turing.toronto.edu (Arthur Tateishi) Subject: Re: Swap partition size? Message-ID: <1994Mar24.162511.18072@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto References: <1994Mar8.141900.2906@wubios.wustl.edu> <1994Mar24.161735.2609@physchem.ox.ac.uk> <michaelv.764539942@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> <2mstt7$p1a@solaris.cc.vt.edu> Date: 24 Mar 94 21:25:11 GMT Lines: 29 In article <2mstt7$p1a@solaris.cc.vt.edu>, Allen Briggs <briggs@cray-ymp.acm.stuorg.vt.edu> wrote: >In article <michaelv.764539942@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu>, >Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@iastate.edu> wrote: >>In <1994Mar24.161735.2609@physchem.ox.ac.uk>, >>mark@physchem.ox.ac.uk (Mark Jackson) writes: >>>I just created a 32MB swap partition, I did mkswap and it reported 32MB, >> >>Are you sure you didn't just create a 32768 *block* partition? >>Blocksize is (generally) 512 bytes, or 1/2 a kilobyte. 32768 blocks >>would equal 16384 megabytes. > ^ k or meg ? ;-) >>>but when I did swapon, it only reported 16380k. Is this talking about WORDS >>>or BYTES? ^k or meg? >> >>A 16k or 32k swap partition would be worthless. ;-) First, realize that comp.os.linux is a defunct group. All posting should be done to the comp.os.linux.* hierarchy. Second, unless you're using a really OLD version of Linux (pre .84?) you will not be able to get more than 16MB per swap file or partition. You can have 128 of them and add/remove them on the fly. mkswap probably doesn't complain about >16MB swap signatures. arthur -- Choices don't scare me. However, a lack of choices does. Arthur Tateishi ruhtra@turing.utoronto.ca