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 Hmm...after looking carefully at the mkswap man page, it appears I have been out of date on Linux swap support.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