Re: seperate swap drive, was Re: [ADMIN] Speed problem - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Kaj-Michael Lang
Subject Re: seperate swap drive, was Re: [ADMIN] Speed problem
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Msg-id 00cf01be08c2$fa8d8990$09c8d0c1@amos.tal.org
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In response to seperate swap drive, was Re: [ADMIN] Speed problem  (Terry Mackintosh <terry@terrym.com>)
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>> Small question, doesn't linux only use around 128 Megs tops for swap
>> space? I thought I read this in a HOWTO somewhere.
>
> If it does, I'll have to add that to my list of reasons why Linux
>is a bad operating system :)


That was the limit of ONE swap partition/file. You can have many swap
partitions/files.
And if I remeber correct this is fixed in the 2.1.X version. (I might be
wrong..)

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