[Nottingham] size of swap partition

[Lee]

Don't put all your swap in the same basket...if you have multiple
drives, spread the swap around....

or put a dedicated (very FAST) disk in just for swap, or if your feeling
very brave use one of the fangled ide ram drive's that I've seen
knocking about. 

;-)...




On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 18:05, Steve Caddy wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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 this is out of date information?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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