It uses as much swap space as it needs from the available swap
	devices. If you run out of all space... bad things happen.

		David/absolute

     		  -=-  "cold nights, dark days..."  -=-

On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, charlie an wrote:

> Talking about swap space, I made a 160 Mb swap partition for my 24 Mb
> RAM, (alghouth I rarely saw the swap was used up to 30 Mb).
> 
> The question is I've heard that some Linux only uses up to certain size
> of swap partition on a per disk base, what's the scenario for NetBSD?
> 
> Charlie
> 
> "Henry B. Hotz" wrote:
> > 
> > At 10:09 AM -0800 11/20/98, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> > >So now, has anyone booted 1.3.2-GENERIC with only 8M of ram?
> > 
> > 8MB is just fine.  But he only has 10MB of swap on top of it.  I'd suggest
> > going to at least 20MB swap, and maybe 30MB if you only have 8MB of RAM.
> > 
> > All that aside I'd think he could at least boot, as long as he didn't turn
> > on too many daemons.
> > 
> > Signature failed Preliminary Design Review.
> > Feasibility of a new signature is currently being evaluated.
> > h.b.hotz@jpl.nasa.gov, or hbhotz@oxy.edu
>