Re: Why should there be a limitation for sawp partition as 128MB max

[Oommen Thomas <oommen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, kamesh jayachandran wrote:

<kameshj>I want to know why there is a limitation as maximum of 128MB swap space, and 
<kameshj>ther canbe a maximum of maximum of 16 swap partitions.

AFAIK, the limitation is that a single partition if it is more than 112.5
MB or so, the rest is ignored. You can have multiple partitions that way.

In fact, having more swap space (than necessary) will degrade performance
as disk reads/writes will be more.

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Oommen

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