You really dont need 4GB of swap. Unless your running something really extreme. Typically the recomendation is to double the amount of RAM you have and thats the size of your swap. But thats not always the case. A good read is:
http://www.linuxhq.com/guides/SAG/x1546.html
Im not 100% but i think the limit of swap sizes was 2GB partitions. I know thats what is was in 2.2.0 kernel.
Stephen Reiach
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Braman <aeon@tampabay.rr.com>
To: slug@nks.net
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 18:07:50 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [SLUG] swap drive, partition or no?
I've got this 4G HD sitting around and I figured I would use it as a "swap
drive" for an installation I'm doing. (Debian, maybe, if I can be
convinced I'm still geeky enough.)
My question is, would the Linux kernel get more use out of the drive if I
partitioned it up into, say, 4 1G partitions or just left it as one, big
swap space?
Or...does it matter?
Paul Braman
aeon@tampabay.rr.com
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