Re: Max swap size ?

On Tue, 2001-12-04 at 00:04, Christopher Murtagh wrote:

 I have a machine running YDL (Dual 800Mhz, 1GB RAM) with a 2.4.13 SMP
kernel (YellowDog's stock SMP kernel) that has a 512 MB swap partition.
When I tried to install on other machines, they wouldn't boot with a swap
partition that big, but for some reason this one did. It wasn't until
after the other machines wouldn't boot did I notice in the TerraSoft docs
that 256MB was the max.

That used to be the case before kernel 2.2 IIRC. Nowadays the limit is
in the gigabytes. FWIW I'm using a 400 meg swap partition without
problems.

The machine ran beautifully until today when it did a nasty crash. My gut
feeling is that it crashed when it tried to write to the swap for the
first time as it was inching up to using almost all available RAM when
it died.

Are you sure it only hit swap then? I can't remember ever seeing active
but completely unused swap space, even when RAM usage was low.


The bottom line is yes, you likely have another problem.


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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast

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