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On Tuesday 18 January 2011 04:42:38 William Kenworthy wrote: |
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> On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 16:23 -0800, Grant wrote: |
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> And for those with gigabytes of swap, keep in mind that the majority of |
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> processors can only access up to 32 x 2G swapfiles under linux, so 4G is |
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> only going to be half used. |
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Unless you are using your swap partition for hibernating to disk, when most of |
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your memory in usage will be saved on it. In that case, if swap is less than |
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RAM, hibernation fails. |
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BTW, it used to be that the kernel would not (easily?) access more than 128M |
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of swap for some reason and multiple 128M swap partitions were more efficient |
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than a single larger space, but this has probably changed with amd64 |
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processors and modern kernels. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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