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Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 11:29:55 -0800
From: chrisl@vmware.com
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: writepage return value check in vmscan.c
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On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 08:22:14PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> 
> swap space doesn't need to be twice as big as ram. That's fixed long
> ago.
> 
> swap+ram is the total amount of virtual memory that you can use in
> vmware.

Cool.

> 
> > 
> > And the swap partition has limit as 2G. So we need to setup 8 swap
> > partitions if we want 16G swap.
> 
> that's a silly restriction of mkswap, the kernel doesn't care, it can
> handle way more than 2G (however there's an high bound at some
> unpractical level, to go safe the math limit should be re-encoded in
> mkswap, of course it changes for every arch because the pte layout is
> different).

Thanks

Chris



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