Give a look at:
http://www-4.ibm.com/software/developer/library/swaptip2.html
HTH - Regards
Gustav
brian davison wrote:
>
> 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 :] ;)
> **********************
>
> 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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