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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:13680 comp.os.linux:57427 Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.linux Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ringer!the-college!ontonca From: ontonca@the-college.iwctx.edu (Anton Toom) Subject: Re: Swap partition size? Message-ID: <CnCI00.EEL@the-college.iwctx.edu> Date: Sun, 27 Mar 1994 22:48:00 GMT References: <1994Mar8.141900.2906@wubios.wustl.edu> <2lk1jm$aor@simpson-01.cs.strath.ac.uk> <CMK8E9.EM5@eskimo.com> <1994Mar17.032150.2147@dde.dk> <1994Mar24.161735.2609@physchem.ox.ac.uk> Organization: Incarnate Word College X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.linux Lines: 14 Mark Jackson (mark@physchem.ox.ac.uk) wrote: : I just created a 32MB swap partition, I did mkswap and it reported 32MB, : but when I did swapon, it only reported 16380k. Is this talking about WORDS : or BYTES? i read somewhere (newsgrp? manpage? howto? cant remember) that currently linux cant use more than 16 meg of swap. but that was with slackware 1.1.2; maybe new slackware 1.2.0 can. hope so anyway. my swap is 15.5 megs and it's just fine. just my $0.01(9)3 -- user ontonca@the-college.iwctx.edu: file ~/.signature not found