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[Arjan van de Ven]

On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 10:43 +0000, Willem Riede wrote:
> On 10/11/2005 11:16:31 PM, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 22:55 +0000, Willem Riede wrote:
> > 
> > > 2. Doing a custom partitioning, with 7G free on a drive, asking to use all
> > 
> > > space remaining for swap gave me 1992 MB swap area and 5G still unused.
> > 
> > This is expected, if not entirely intuitive.  We have a cap on swap
> > space unless you explicitly request more just to avoid people ending up
> > with way more than they need.
> 
> Errmmm, this box currently has 2GB of memory (with plans to grow to 6GB), so  
> according to the swap = 2x memory, shouldn't that cap have been 4G?

more than 2Gb swap makes no sense in general. Only in very very special
and specific application workloads I guess....

Anaconda shouldn't lay down more than 2Gb nor complain if you have more
ram and only put down 2Gb.
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