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

Steven Cole (elenstev@mesatop.com)
Sun, 19 Aug 2001 11:52:50 -0400


On Sunday 19 August 2001 01:29 pm, Luigi Genoni wrote:
[snipped]
> On my ultrasparc linux with 4 GByte of RAM running 2.4.X kernels,
> I needed to add a 8 GB disk just for
> swap (16 partitions of 512 MB each one).
--------^^
Just curious, in linux-2.4.9/include/linux/swap.h line 11, we have:

#define MAX_SWAPFILES 8

Did you change this to 16, or does this not matter anymore?
This value is the same in 2.4.8-ac7.

Steven
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