From: "Michel Dänzer" <michdaen@iiic.ethz.ch>
To: Christopher Murtagh <christopher.murtagh@mcgill.ca>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Max swap size ?
Date: 04 Dec 2001 19:37:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1007491043.21631.28.camel@pismo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112041131460.28164-100000@blues.wcg.mcgill.ca>
On Tue, 2001-12-04 at 17:35, Christopher Murtagh wrote:
>
> Thanks for the replies.
>
> On 4 Dec 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> >That used to be the case before kernel 2.2 IIRC. Nowadays the limit is
> >in the gigabytes. FWIW I'm using a 400 meg swap partition without
> >problems.
>
> Ok, well that's good to hear.
>
> >Are you sure it only hit swap then? I can't remember ever seeing active
> >but completely unused swap space, even when RAM usage was low.
> >
> >The bottom line is yes, you likely have another problem.
>
> This isn't though.. :-(
>
> Mem: 1024100K av, 774636K used, 249464K free, 0K shrd, 179708K buff
> Swap: 524280K av, 0K used, 524280K free 490400K cached
>
> this is what my machine is like at the moment. So, from what you are
> saying, my problem lies elsewhere (ie. is not swap *size*), but is likely
> swap related?
Or maybe it's related to the huge amount of RAM you have, but others
will know better.
--
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-04 18:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-03 23:04 Max swap size ? Christopher Murtagh
2001-12-04 16:14 ` Michel Dänzer
2001-12-04 16:20 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2001-12-04 16:35 ` Christopher Murtagh
2001-12-04 18:37 ` Michel Dänzer [this message]
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