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