From: Lars Wirzenius (wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI)
Date: 04/30/93 

From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
Subject: Re: Intel, the Pentium and Linux
Date: 30 Apr 1993 16:36:58 GMT

wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius), the stupid fool, writes:
>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. :-)

My breathing is getting hard. That's _8_ swap areas max, not 7. From
the kernel sources (linux/mm/swap.c):

        #define MAX_SWAPFILES 8

(Thanks to bk1@aixfile1.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (Karl Brodowsky) for
pointing this out.)