Re:[cobalt-users] Making a swapfile

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 10 February 2003 18:36, Grant Stern wrote:
> the new questions are:
>
> does the raq2 and its dinosauric version number of red hat allow such a
> large swap?

I never tried it on a RaQ2, 
I customize the OSRCD and set 
swap, / and /var partitions to any value I desire.

> the word of Linus himself seems to indicate otherwise here:
> http://hegel.ittc.ukans.edu/topics/linux/man-pages/man8/mkswap.8.html
>
> should i just accept a 127 mb swap file and quit bitching and make my
> empty file accordingly?

I believe you called it!

> or, am i just missing something incredibly obvious and deserve a
> spanking (from female members of the list only!)???

>   after 90 smoothe slappy days of serving, my poor raq has had two hard
> boots in 3 days from the kswapd crashing, even tho its barely using the
> swap anymore . . . .
>

Try it with 127MB and see how it goes.

I looked at mine, which I had set the swap partition to 512 MB, and it is
SwapTotal:   130748 kB
SwapFree:    130696 kB

Gerald
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