[Nottingham] size of swap partition

[Steve Caddy]

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From: "BUNTER MATTHEW" <Matthew.Bunter@renaultvi.com>
To: <nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 2:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Nottingham] size of swap partition

> The PC has a 120 G hard disk as well so allocating 1 G of swap partition
> won't be a problem.

I was under the impression that the largest amount of swap space that would
be used in a swap partition was the amount pageable when the paging table
was the size of one page. I seem to remember this being about 250MB. Maybe
this is out of date information? I do recall though that you could get
around this by having multiple swap partitions all of the "maximum" size.

Steve

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