greg> Better watch it there. Wasn't it Gates who once said, "Who'd
greg> need more that 640K of memory?" :)
greg> If Linux is ever to be considered a player in the upper-midrange
greg> market then eventually having a single 2+GB swap partition would
greg> be very useful. As an example, all machines I admin at work have
greg> 4GB to 16GB swap partitions (over a striped RAID5, of course).
greg> Not so much for swapping but for savecores & crash analysis.
It is not that useful to have that large amounts of swap as long as
processes are limited to 32-bit addressing space. It could be very
useful on 64-bit ports -- do those ports have the same limit?
However, I think it is reasonable to support >128M swap in one area.
I usually configure our servers with 250MB of swap space, and those
servers are by no means high-end.
Benny Amorsen
Scandinavian Security Center