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

[Kevin Colby <kevinc grainsystems com>]

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

Well, I really don't know.
However, I wouldn't try it.  *grin*

mkswap could have merely "prepared" the first 128M.
The remaining 2 or 4 or whatever may be used at some
point despite that, and since they weren't "prepared"
all hell breaks loose.  (This is TOTAL CONJECTURE.)

	- Kevin Colby
	  kevinc grainsystems com


> 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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