From: khockenbury@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu Subject: Re: Intel, the Pentium and Linux Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 15:16:59 GMT
In article <1993Apr30.124227.5252@klaava.Helsinki.FI>, wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) writes:
> willmore@iastate.edu (David Willmore) writes:
>>>256 MB.
>>
>>Last time I checked, I was told 16Meg. Who's right?
>
> Neither, I think. The maximum size of one swap area (swap partition
> or swap file) is 16 MB, and there can be up to 7 swap areas, so the
> total maximum is 128 MB. (And if I have these numbers wrong, someone
> is sure to strangle me. :-)
Hmm. You may be right - I didn't check the code, I just stole the 256MB
number out of the Info Sheet, which claims you can have 16 swap areas.
Time to go code delving!
-Kurt Hockenbury