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On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 03:49:51PM -0700, David Lang wrote:
> swap partitions are limited to 2G (or at least they were a couple of months 
> ago when I last checked). I also don't want to run the risk of having a box 
> try to _use_ 16G worth of swap. I'd rather have the box hit OOM first.

They aren't limited anymore, I have a number of machines with 20G swap
for experiments.

  OG.