In the section "Recommended Partitioning Scheme" several recommendations are made for the size of the swap partition. It might be usefull to include that for performance reasons a swap partition should not exceed 2GB. When a larger swap partition is needed using multiple swap partitions is recommended. Kind regards Bram Mertens
Excellent suggestion! Spreading swap over multiple devices can indeed provide a performance benefit. I've added a note to the Installation Guide to this effect. This will become visible the next time that we republish the book. Many thanks for your input Bram. Cheers Ruediger r24943 | rlandman | 2009-12-16 12:29:07 +1000 (Wed, 16 Dec 2009) | 1 line
verified in http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html-single/Installation_Guide/ Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Installation_Guide-5-web-en-US-3.1-2.el5
Thank you for this update. However the note only mentions spreading swap over multiple devices. It does not mention a maximum size for these partitions. Is the limit of 2GB still valid? If so I believe this should be added to the documentation as well. Kind regards Bram