Re: regarding swap space

2001-04-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 10:18:04PM -0600, Dwayne C. Litzenberger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 01:39:19PM +1000, Renai LeMay wrote: > > I currently have two drives in my machine, one primary master with Debian > > unstable and a swap partition, and one unused primary slave.

Re: regarding swap space

2001-04-30 Thread Dwayne C. Litzenberger
I guess I look like a fool now... Oh well, it wouldn't be the first time. I looked at the manpage, and it actually DOES hurt to have too much swap space: Note that before 2.1.117 the kernel allocated one byte for each page, while it now allocates two bytes, so that tak? ing

Re: regarding swap space

2001-04-29 Thread Renai LeMay
I got the following error: mkswap: warning: truncuating swap area to 2097144kB mkswap: will not try to make swapdevice on '%s' and I could not set the whole disk as a swap device. This is upon deleting all partitions in the device, and typing 'mkswap /dev/hdb' Renai On Monday 30 April 2001 14:

Re: regarding swap space

2001-04-29 Thread Dwayne C. Litzenberger
> it's a 4 gig drive > > do you really think having a 4 gig swap disk is worth it on a system with 32 > meg ram? No, but I don't think it would do any harm, *if* you're not going to use the rest of the disk anyway. > and do I have to format the whole drive as swap? Yes: mkswap -v1 /dev/hdx >

Re: regarding swap space

2001-04-29 Thread Dwayne C. Litzenberger
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 01:39:19PM +1000, Renai LeMay wrote: > I currently have two drives in my machine, one primary master with debian > unstable and a swap partition, and one unused primary slave. > > What I'm looking to do, is create a swap partition on the slave drive, and > use that instea

Re: regarding swap space

2001-04-29 Thread ktb
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 01:39:19PM +1000, Renai LeMay wrote: > I currently have two drives in my machine, one primary master with debian > unstable and a swap partition, and one unused primary slave. > > What I'm looking to do, is create a swap partition on the slave drive, and > use that instea

Re: regarding swap space

2001-04-29 Thread Peter Schüller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > I currently have two drives in my machine, one primary master with debian > unstable and a swap partition, and one unused primary slave. > > What I'm looking to do, is create a swap partition on the slave drive, and > use that instead of the one on m