From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jul 19 20:34: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from avarice.riverstyx.net (hq-port-97.harbour-dhcp-pool.infinetgroup.com [207.23.37.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62D1F14D9D for ; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 20:33:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from unknown@riverstyx.net) Received: from avarice (unknown@avarice [207.23.37.97]) by avarice.riverstyx.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA15488; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 20:32:56 -0700 Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 20:32:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Tani Hosokawa To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Greg Lehey , Gianmarco Giovannelli , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing Linux (and bootblocks) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > That looks pretty much the same as mine, except for the order, which a > > > trial installation of UnixWare screwed up. Did you know that RedHat > > > 5.2 claims you can't use more than 127 MB of swap? > > > > Because you can't. You can make a swap partition that's bigger, but it'll > > truncate it when it activates it, so you're just wasting disk space. If > > you want more, make multiple partitions. In the 2.2.x kernel you can have > > larger swap spaces, but RH5.2 is 2.0.36-based. > > And Linux doesn't round-robin its' swap usage between devices, does it? > > I read that in an OS-comparison type article recently. I really couldn't say. I'm certain that there are distinct performance improvements from having swap space on multiple drives, so I suspect that Linux does round-robin its usage. --- tani hosokawa river styx internet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message