In article <1kbjo7INN7rm@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon) writes:
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>darin@infograph.com (Darin Wayrynen) writes:
>
>>I have partitioned my SCSI hard disk to leave 32 megabytes left over
>>for swap space.  When I use the swap partition Linux will only install
>>16 megabytes of it.
>
>>Is this related to the 'only use 16 megs of physical ram' question
>>that comes up during kernel configuration?  Or ????
>
>No, Linus just decided to limit swap space to 16M per partition. I don't
>really agree with this myself, but it seems to work.
>
>The only real solution you have is to make multiple partitions of 16M for
>swap and then mount them on.

  Actually, I saw a patch for .98p5 to allow larger than 16M swap. I
did not keep it, and I wonder if someone could re-post it? Perhaps
a diff against .99p4?
  Also, since it seems easy to configure the kernel, could Linus add
a configure option for larger than 16M swap?

Steve