Re: seperate swap drive, was Re: [ADMIN] Speed problem

From: "Kaj-Michael Lang" <milang(at)tal(dot)org>
To: "The Hermit Hacker" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, "Lincoln Spiteri" <lincoln(dot)spiteri(at)st(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-admin(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: seperate swap drive, was Re: [ADMIN] Speed problem
Date: 1998-11-05 13:48:29
Message-ID: 00cf01be08c2$fa8d8990$09c8d0c1@amos.tal.org
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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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