[rhel6-branch] [PATCH] Limit the maximum swap size to 10 % of disk space

Chris Lumens clumens at redhat.com
Thu Dec 6 16:19:41 UTC 2012


> On e.g. virtual machines with smalls disks and high amount of
> memory it doesn't make sense to create large swap space leaving
> only a little for the system and user data.
> 
> Also change comment to a docstring and document parameters.
> 
> Related: rhbz#878907
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vratislav Podzimek <vpodzime at redhat.com>

Whatever change here, this absolutely will require both a release note
and an update to the relevant knowledge base/installation guide/etc.
pages as well.  We need to avoid getting back into the situation where
anaconda's swap algorithm and the documented swap algorithm differ.

- Chris


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