Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: 128MB Swap-Space Limit | Date | Tue, 11 Aug 1998 16:54:15 +0100 (BST) |
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> Is there any deeper reason, why a single swap-space is limited to 128MB (on > i386)? From my understanding of the kernel-source and initial testing (I have > a dual P2 under 2.1.115 with a single 500MB swap-space running fine) it is > rather trivial to increase the limit to an arbitrary size. So my question is, > why hasn't anybody done this already?
Stephen Tweedie did, and also fixed the horrible horrible vm bug in the current 2.1.x where any user can create 128 mappings of a page and it leaks.
His patch is in 2.1.115ac*
Alan
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