2.3 install error: error RUNNING TRANSACTION set (PBG3 233)

[Rick Thomas]

It should not be necessary to have two swap partitions, just to get the extra 
space.  One partition of 512 MB should do the job just fine.  The restriction 
on the size of swap partitions has long since gone away.  It had to do with 
the number of bits in a fixed-size bitmap of used blocks in the swap file.  
Recent kernels (since 2.3? -- maybe... I don't recall) use a different format 
for swap files, which is more scalable.

Whether you actually need all that swap space is another question.  I 
(usually) say, "Disk is cheap!" and allocate a gig or so (on a 60GByte drive, 
I'll never miss it!)  I never expecct to use it all, but it's there just in 
case I ever need it.

But if you're constrained for space (required to use existing and/or ancient 
hardware for financial or philosophical reasons, for example) then you can go 
as low as 1 for 1 with RAM. (Actually the system will run just fine with no 
swap at all, and be completely comfortable with a ratio somewhat less than 1 
for 1.   Whether you choose to do so is your decision -- base it on your 
workload.)

Enjoy!

Rick



On Saturday 13 July 2002 10:15, astout2@swarthmore.edu wrote:
> "r. may" <mayro@earthlink.net> said:
> > /home partition.  I think this was a problem because there isn't enough
> > room on my /home partition to hold a developer install.
>
> Could it be getting confused by the fact that I have (or, am trying to
> have) two swap partitions?
>
> (My machine has 288 Mb RAM...I've been told a good rule of thumb is to
> have twice as much swap as RAM, and I read somewhere that linux for
> some reason or other doesn't support swap partitions larger than 256
> Mb...so I've been trying to do
> 12 swap 256M
> 13 swap 256M
> 14 /    2048M
> 15 /home 5120M)
>
> --A.
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