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 17:14:12 +0100 Message-Id: <1007482452.21511.10.camel@pismo> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Tue, 2001-12-04 at 00:04, Christopher Murtagh wrote: > I have a machine running YDL (Dual 800Mhz, 1GB RAM) with a 2.4.13 SMP > kernel (YellowDog's stock SMP kernel) that has a 512 MB swap partition. > When I tried to install on other machines, they wouldn't boot with a swap > partition that big, but for some reason this one did. It wasn't until > after the other machines wouldn't boot did I notice in the TerraSoft docs > that 256MB was the max. 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. > The machine ran beautifully until today when it did a nasty crash. My gut > feeling is that it crashed when it tried to write to the swap for the > first time as it was inching up to using almost all available RAM when > it died. 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. -- 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/