[ale] Swap Limited to 130Megs?

[Mike Fletcher]

<tko at westgac3.dragon.com> writes:
> As I recall, the max size for a swap is 128Meg. However, one can use multiple
> swap partitions (up to 16?). I have used 3 partitions before for swap (too
> small and too many processes <G> ) You just need an entry for each partition
> in /etc/fstab (if you desire availability at boot up time).

	Also keep in mind that if you spread your swap partitions
across devices you'll probably get better performance (just like
putting parts of your filesystem on different drives).

	I personally have a ~32M swap partition and 64M RAM and have
never really had problems with things running out of memory (then
again, I haven't tried running quake2 while recompiling the kernel
either . . . :).

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