Re: Help:General protection fault in Linux?????? (It's the swap!)

[Alexander Woodby <awoodby tir com>]

But mkswap truncated it to 128M anyway, could it still cause problems
that I'd set it higher?

--alex

Kevin Colby wrote:
> 
> Alexander Woodby wrote:
> >
> > Just tried mkswap (after swapoff) and get
> >
> > mkswap: warning: truncating swap area to 130752kB
> > Setting up swapspace, size=133885952 bytes
> >
> > Why is it truncating the swap size?  I seem to remember an older
> > version having the swap size limited to 130M but not any more,
> > what's the deal?
> 
> Actually, I believe there is a current limit of 128M on swap
> partition size.  You can have more then one, but each can be
> no more then 128M.  This may be your whole problem.
> 
>         - Kevin Colby
>           kevinc grainsystems com
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