Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Jun 2005 14:40:25 +0200 | From | Jakob Oestergaard <> | Subject | Re: Swap maximum size documented ? |
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On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 02:25:13PM +0200, david.balazic@hermes.si wrote: > Hi! > > Is there any doc about swap size limits ?
Documetation? Is this a trick question? It's Linux, of course there is no current documentation except for the source ;)
/me ducks and runs ;)
> The mkwap(8) man page claims, that currently the limit is > 32 swap areas of maximum 2 gigabyte size (for x86 arch). > > Is that correct ?
Not on 2.6 kernels, no.
[sparrow:joe] $ cat /proc/swaps Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/mapper/vg0-swap partition 8388600 0 -1
I use 4-8 G swap areas on 32-bit x86 and 64-bit amd64 kernels.
You probably need a new version of mkswap if it insists that 2G is the maximum - it sure isn't a kernel limitation anymore.
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/ jakob
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