From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds) Subject: Re: Big swap partitions [> 16M] Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1993 13:01:17 GMT
In article <1993Apr15.102608.25039@alw.nih.gov> seidl@alw.nih.gov (Edward Seidl) writes:
>In article <1qj6u8$s6l@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>, wong@cs.tu-berlin.de (Wolfgang Jung) writes:
>|>
>|> Q: How many Swapareas is Linux able to handle
>|>
>
>Eight.
In the default configuration, yes. I think the way I encode the
swap-page numbers actually restrict the number of swap-areas to 127 or
something like that, but you should be able to get more than 8 by just
changing a #define.
Linus