From: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>
To: Eriberto <eriberto@eriberto.pro.br>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: swap: which is the maximum size allowed?
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 23:43:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1HBIkM-0001I5-9q@be1.lrz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7IoP9-5nQ-27@gated-at.bofh.it>
Eriberto <eriberto@eriberto.pro.br> wrote:
> I am trying understand the swap. I would like to know which is the
> maximum swap size on i386. Is 64 MB? If yes, how to know the origin of
> this "magic" number? I don't found it (Internet).
Look into the manpage of mkswap. It's 2 G x 32 swap partitions,
minus a tiny overhead.
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2007-01-28 22:43 ` Bodo Eggert [this message]
2007-01-28 23:01 ` Eriberto
2007-01-29 0:19 ` Matt Mackall
2007-01-28 20:09 Eriberto
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