Messages on this list at 6.0 or 6.1 said now the swap could be up to 2
gigabytes.. that's the largest acceptable I've seen listed anywhere. I
read a note (along with my latest upgrade) that said the kernel
automaticly balances reads / writes to multiple swaps to maximize performance.
Someone may have a benchmark somewhere to show if 4 1gigs would beat a pair
of 2s...
HTH
Brian :] ;)
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At 03:11 PM 4/16/00 -0500, you wrote:
>
>>>>>> On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, "Robert" == Robert Fausey wrote:
>
> Robert> Which would give me better performance one large swap
> Robert> partition or two or more smaller partitions. The
> Robert> system is used for serious number crunching would a
> Robert> 3GB partition be big enough or should I use a 4GB
> Robert> partition?
>
>I don't _think_ this has changed up thru the 2.2 kernels but you
>should verify it from a second source:
>
>Linux is unable to make use of more than 128MB in a single swap
>partition. There is a fixed size table involved that has room
>for map entries that cover only 128MB (or maybe it's 127MB).
>
>--Hal
>
>
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