Des Aubery tapped away at the keyboard with:
256Mb swap partition works fine in SuSE 6.4.
I understand that previous kernels had the 128Mb swap limit - later kernels seem to have raised this to around 1Gb.
Perhaps some other folk could comment...
It's been mentioned previously that you should distribute swap over as many drives as you can afford, giving Linux the best opportunity to minimise I/O contention. 128MB would have therefore been enough; prior to the most-recent bloat iteration. I usually allocate a primary swap on the fastest disk, of about double physical RAM, but no larger than 128MB, then add another of around the same size on another spindle; or paired swaps at the same priority on a couple of other slow disks. mkswap(8) for limitations, etc, and swapon(2) for the twiddly bits about priorities, etc. -- Bernd Felsche - Innovative Reckoning Perth, Western Australia -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq