Re: ext2 problems on fast-wide SCSI-2
Mark Lehrer (lehrer@bellhow.com)
Tue, 07 May 1996 09:14:38 -0400
>>> It's a P150 (Tyan Tempest II) with 64MB RAM, a DPT PM2124W
>>> Fast/Wide SCSI-2 controller, a Fujitsu M2934QA 4GB F/W SCSI-2
>>> drive that's been partitioned to have sda1 as a 300-odd MB
>>> root partition and sda4 as a 32MB swap partition, and a
>>> 3c595 Ethercard.
>>
>> Swap partitions can only be a max of 16MB in size, last I
>> heard, and there can be a total of 8 swap partitions.
>
> Quick question here. I have been using a swap size of 70MB
> for the last 2 months. It has worked perfectly with no problems,
> although with 32 MB of RAM, I rarely exceed 10 MB of swap usage.
> Am I looking for trouble here or is the swap size able to
> actually be larger than 16MB? I haven't tried this large swap
> with any kernel before 1.3.8x, so is that the reason it has
> worked for me?
i have been using a 32 meg swap partition and have filled it
up completely with no trouble (apart from a slowdown whilst
kswap ran).
perhaps this was an earlier limitation. here's a report now
from top right now:
6:02pm up 12 days, 8:04, 15 users, load average: 1.85, 1.84, 1.64
67 processes: 65 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 18.2% user, 4.9% system, 0.0% nice, 77.1% idle
Mem: 30948K av, 29168K used, 1780K free, 11680K shrd, 3144K buff
Swap: 30584K av, 26960K used, 3624K free 7444K cached