Al salaam a'alaykum Roy

15 Oct 03 04:06, Roy J. Tellason wrote to David Drummond:

 DD>> The reason for two swap partitions is that the apparent maximum
 DD>> size for a swap partition in Slackware 8 (and below) is 128Mb. I
 DD>> wanted 256Mb swap space. 

 RJT> I think that's dependent on kernel version,  and went away as a 
 RJT> restriction somewhere around 2.2.x,  though I'm not precisely sure 
 RJT> about the version number.  In any case,  with anything fairly recent 
 RJT> the restriction just isn't there any more.

Slackware 8 uses kernel 2.2.19

Regards,
David

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