Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Jun 2003 12:00:39 -0700 | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: Maximum swap space? |
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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 | | That piece of documentation is out of date.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.
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