In article <1993Apr15.130117.19367@klaava.Helsinki.FI>, torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds) writes:
|> In article <1993Apr15.102608.25039@alw.nih.gov> seidl@alw.nih.gov (Edward Seidl) writes:
|> >In article <1qj6u8$s6l@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>, wong@cs.tu-berlin.de (Wolfgang Jung) writes:
|> >|> 
|> >|> Q: How many Swapareas is Linux able to handle 
|> >|> 
|> >
|> >Eight.
|> 
|> In the default configuration, yes.  I think the way I encode the
|> swap-page numbers actually restrict the number of swap-areas to 127 or
|> something like that, but you should be able to get more than 8 by just
|> changing a #define. 
|> 
|>              Linus

Although if you do this, you'll have to redefine MAX_SWAPFILES in free.c
from the ps-0.99.6 source.  Would the procps version of free have to change
at all?

Ed  


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