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- From: Jim.Lawhon@f6008.n124.z1.fidonet.org (Jim Lawhon)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: swap partitions bigger than 16M???
- Message-ID: <726137676.AA29981@remote.halcyon.com>
- Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1993 03:41:26 -0800
- Sender: UUCP@remote.halcyon.com
- Lines: 22
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- To: seidl@alw.nih.gov (Edward Seidl)
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- ES> Brief description of my problem: I configured my hard disk to
- ES> have a 32M swap partition as /dev/hda2,
- ES> did "mkswap /dev/hda2 32xxx", and then "swapon /dev/hda2".
- ^^^^^
- blocks
-
- One block = 512 bytes X 32xxx = 16M ...
-
- ES> The mkswap said (sorry, are paraphrases) that 32M were configured,
- ES> but the swapon said that 16M of swap were being added. free also
- says I
- ES> only have 16M of swap.
-
- Are you running some memory hungry wares or several user system? That
- seems like a pretty big swap area.
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