Thanks for that. I've since done the upgrade and everything looks fine. The first time I did it I said that I didn't want it to create additional swap, and the install crashed half way through. Second time I said yes, created a 100M swap file, and everything worked fine. I'm writing this on my new 7.2 install
Gary On Friday 09 November 2001 1:31 pm, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > At 11/9/2001 12:05 PM +0000, you wrote: > >I've just started an upgrade from Rh7.1 to RH 7.2, and I've been asked to > >create a swap *file* because the new 2.4 kernels need more memory. > > > >This has surprised me somewhat as I didn't know that Linux used swap > > files, only swap partitions. > > It can use both. > > >Is this normal, and is it okay? > > Yes. > > >Any why isn't it happy with the 32M swap partitoin on /dev/hda5 and the > > 64MB partition on /dev/hdb5? > > > >BTW, I'm running 128MB RAM. > > 2.4 kernels swap out essentially your entire contents of RAM in order to > accelerate suspends and other operations (and for whatever else), plus they > need actual swap. So, the requirement is 2x RAM; for you, 256MB swap. -- Gary Stainburn This email does not contain private or confidential material as it may be snooped on by interested government parties for unknown and undisclosed purposes - Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, 2000 _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
