Re: Swap size for a machine with 2GB of memory

From: Steven Cole (elenstev@mesatop.com)
Date: Sun Aug 19 2001 - 09:39:48 EST


On Sunday 19 August 2001 02:42 am, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> The Red Hat installation manual claims that the size of the swap partition
> should be twice the size of physical memory, but no more than 128MB.
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For the benefit of anyone finding this in the kernel archives and any
future Linux technical historians, this 128MB swap partition limit was
fixed by a patch submitted by Stephen C. Tweedie on 9 Jul 1998, and which
appeared in 2.1.109 on 20 Jul 1998.

Steven
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