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 17:14:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1007482452.21511.10.camel@pismo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112031753420.21063-100000@blues.wcg.mcgill.ca>
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
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-04 16:14 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 [this message]
2001-12-04 16:20 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2001-12-04 16:35 ` Christopher Murtagh
2001-12-04 18:37 ` Michel Dänzer
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