Re: 120GB disk problems

From: Rick Stevens (rstevens_at_vitalstream.com)
Date: 03/23/04

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    Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 11:47:58 -0800
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    jludwig wrote:
    > Remember also swap space can not be over 2 Gbytes.

    Correction. Any single swap partition or swap file cannot exceed 2G.
    You can have multiple swap partitions or files to give you the swap
    you need. I have several servers with 8GB of RAM. To give me the 2x
    RAM swap the client wanted (unnecessary, but what are you going to do?)
    I used 4 2G swap partitions and 4 2G swap files.

    It ain't pretty, but it works.

    > There is little gained for a single user workstation over 512 Mbytes as
    > far as I have read.

    Depends on what you're doing. For 99% of the folk out there, that's
    true.
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