With that, you could very comfortably run an isp dial-up server. Greg On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 04:47:13PM -0500, Kirk Wood wrote: > On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Raul A. Gallegos wrote: > > Hi. I don't remember off hand where I read this but somewhere some swap docs said that if your swap is larger than 128 megs none of the space after 128 > > megs will be used anyway so if you will have a swap to not make it more than 128 megs in size to avoid wasting disk space. > > Hmm, well I went and started looking this all up. Linux *used* to have a > limit of 128 MB per partition with no limit on the number of > partitions. This however, is no longer the case. The maximum usable size > of the swap partition now varies with architecture. For the majority of us > (running intel platform) that size is now 2 GB. So, have fun and make > large partitions. > > Of course this also starts to beg the question if I should not save up and > build a machine with monstrously large amounts of memory and swap size. I > mean I can get 256 MB DIMMs for less then $100, and 15 GB hard drives for > another $100. Thus, I could design a system with say 3/4 gigabyte of > memory and 60 gigabytes of drive space for less then a grand. (Not that I > have a use for such a system.) > > ======= > Kirk Wood > Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net > > The mind is like a parachute; it works much better when open. > If you're too open minded, your brains will fall out. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
