do i need swap

[Gregory Nowak]

With that, you could very comfortably
run an isp dial-up server.
Greg


On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 04:47:13PM -0500, Kirk Wood wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Raul A. Gallegos wrote:
> > Hi.  I don't remember off hand where I read this but somewhere some swap docs said that if your swap is larger than 128 megs none of the space after 128 
> > megs will be used anyway so if you will have a swap to not make it more than 128 megs in size to avoid wasting disk space.
> 
> Hmm, well I went and started looking this all up. Linux *used* to have a
> limit of 128 MB per partition with no limit on the number of
> partitions. This however, is no longer the case. The maximum usable size
> of the swap partition now varies with architecture. For the majority of us
> (running intel platform) that size is now 2 GB. So, have fun and make
> large partitions.
> 
> Of course this also starts to beg the question if I should not save up and
> build a machine with monstrously large amounts of memory and swap size. I
> mean I can get 256 MB DIMMs for less then $100, and 15 GB hard drives for
> another $100. Thus, I could design a system with say 3/4 gigabyte of
> memory and 60 gigabytes of drive space for less then a grand. (Not that I
> have a use for such a system.)
> 
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