"Geoffrey Romer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm told that this is a bug in the 2.4 series- does anyone know if > > > upgrading > > > to 2.4.6 will help this problem at all? If not, are there any other > > > workarounds? > > > > > > > > One work around is to make sure that you have a swap partition at least > > twice as big as physical memory. This has been just a rule of thumb prior > > to 2.4, but seems to be pretty important now. > > No- the other way around, in fact. I have 256 meg RAM and 127 meg swap. Is > there still a rule that swap partitions can be no larger than 127 meg? If > not, I shall have to look into repartitioning...
Ther's no more 128M size limit on swap partitions with 2.4.x. I'm sure there's a limit on the size of a swap partition but I've got a 2G one and, other than apparently never freeing itself, it's been used right up to the 2G size. Gary
