[CentOS] Swap Considerations

Alvin Chang wrote:
> On 27/02/07, Feizhou <feizhou at graffiti.net> wrote:
>> When I get firefox and thunderbird fired up, memory usage can go through
>> the roof so I have allocated 2GB (maximum swap partition size btw) for
> Pardon me, but I just set up a CentOS box with 8GB of swap partition
> yesterday. Am I misisng something?

Hmm...after looking carefully at the mkswap man page, it appears I have 
been out of date on Linux swap support. :D

This was true on 2.2 kernels for i386 boxes and the limitations on the 
maximum useful size of a swap are were removed in 2.3.3