Phil Doroff writes: > Strange, > > have you tried mkswap -v2? (man is your friend) > > In any case, IMO 1.6GB of swap is beyond silly, your system will be useless > by the time it fills up half of that. :) Can anyone comment on the above? I used to work on model-checking, which is brute-force exploration of ENORMOUS state spaces, and having a gig of swap doesn't seem that crazy to me. But I've also heard never to have more than 256K. But never with a clear explanation of why. R