On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:58:47 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Beartooth Sciurivore wrote: [...] >> Otoh, I've never gotten anywhere near filling up a hard drive, >> except once when I had a testbed machine triple booting three different >> distros. So why can't I at least increase the swap space? >> > I believe there is a limit to the size of a swap partition. I don't > remember what it is. But you can create more then one swap partition. > The system will use them all. You also have the option of adding a swap > file after install. Try this, and see if it helps. But remember, when > you start doing a lot of swapping, the system is going to slow way down. OK; but then there's something else I don't know, or don't understand. Does a Fedora machine do any swapping while it has memory left? I didn't think I had (or needed) any control at all over swapping, beyond choosing how much space to afford it. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
