Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 20:32:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Tani Hosokawa <unknown@riverstyx.net> To: Kris Kennaway <kkenn@rebel.net.au> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Gianmarco Giovannelli <gmarco@giovannelli.it>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing Linux (and bootblocks) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9907192030511.15470-100000@avarice.riverstyx.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907201041000.3461-100000@morden.rebel.net.au>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > That looks pretty much the same as mine, except for the order, which a > > > trial installation of UnixWare screwed up. Did you know that RedHat > > > 5.2 claims you can't use more than 127 MB of swap? > > > > Because you can't. You can make a swap partition that's bigger, but it'll > > truncate it when it activates it, so you're just wasting disk space. If > > you want more, make multiple partitions. In the 2.2.x kernel you can have > > larger swap spaces, but RH5.2 is 2.0.36-based. > > And Linux doesn't round-robin its' swap usage between devices, does it? > > I read that in an OS-comparison type article recently. I really couldn't say. I'm certain that there are distinct performance improvements from having swap space on multiple drives, so I suspect that Linux does round-robin its usage. --- tani hosokawa river styx internet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.LNX.4.10.9907192030511.15470-100000>