From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: Max swap size ? From: Michel =?ISO-8859-1?Q?D=E4nzer?= To: Christopher Murtagh Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: 04 Dec 2001 19:37:23 +0100 Message-Id: <1007491043.21631.28.camel@pismo> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: 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 ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/