From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.1-0.1.9smp i686) 2.4 kernels act wierd if swap is less than 2 time physical memory. rc.sysinit should warn user that swap is too small. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. add script to rc.sysinit after swap files are turned on. 2. 3. if [ $((`grep SwapTotal: /proc/meminfo|cut -c11-23`/`grep MemTotal: /proc/meminfo| cut -c11-23`)) -lt 2 ]; then echo "Warning: Swap space should be 2X physical memory." echo "Please increase size or number of swap files/partitions." fi
No, this is really the wrong place for this sort of thing; it should go in the documentation/release-notes.