From: wto@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (William T. O Connell) Subject: Re: Swap partition != available swap space Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 17:03:05 GMT
In article <1993Jan26.124338.8238@infograph.com> darin@infograph.com (Darin Wayrynen) writes:
>I have partitioned my SCSI hard disk to leave 32 megabytes left over
>for swap space. When I use the swap partition Linux will only install
>16 megabytes of it.
>
>Is this related to the 'only use 16 megs of physical ram' question
>that comes up during kernel configuration? Or ????
No, it's not related to the kernel config question, thats referring
to phy. RAM. - someone correct me if I'm wrong but, linux will use up
to 16MB of swap space, even though in your case you allocated 32MBs.
If you want to have more then 16MB of swap space you'll have to modify
the kernel to support the larger swap space. Someone did post a while
back that they got info from linus on how to modify the kernel to
do this, I don't believe the change was that big of a deal.
- Bill O'Connell
a while back