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From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: colin@colina.demon.co.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Maximum swap space?
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 12:00:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030610120039.31e8ee47.rddunlap@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0306071827450.24170-100000@chimarrao.boston.redhat.com>

On Sat, 7 Jun 2003 18:28:46 -0400 (EDT) Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> wrote:

| On 7 Jun 2003, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
| 
| > I am somewhat confused about how much swap space you can have with a
| > 2.4 series kernel. If I read the mkswap man page, I get the impression
| > that I could have up to 8x2GB of swap space for a total of 16 GB, but
| > reading the RedHat reference guide, it says 2GB maximum.
| 
| That piece of documentation is out of date.  I'm using a
| 20 GB swap partition on one of my test systems, with a
| 2.4 kernel.

So do we know what the 2.4.current and 2.5.current limits are?

You have used a 20 GB swap partition on 2.4.recent.
Andrew has used (tested) a 52 GB partition on some unmentioned
kernel.

Thanks,
--
~Randy

  reply	other threads:[~2003-06-10 18:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-07  8:55 Colin Paul Adams
2003-06-07 17:50 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-06-07 20:24   ` Andrew Morton
2003-06-07 20:50     ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-06-08  0:55       ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-06-08  1:28         ` Andrew Morton
2003-06-08  1:38           ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-06-08  6:31             ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-06-07 21:43   ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-06-07 21:49     ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-06-07 22:18       ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-06-07 22:43         ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-06-07 22:28 ` Rik van Riel
2003-06-10 19:00   ` Randy.Dunlap [this message]
2003-06-10 19:29     ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-06-08 22:51 Andries.Brouwer

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