Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264363AbTFHBO6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jun 2003 21:14:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264374AbTFHBO6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jun 2003 21:14:58 -0400 Received: from pao-ex01.pao.digeo.com ([12.47.58.20]:59178 "EHLO pao-ex01.pao.digeo.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264363AbTFHBO5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jun 2003 21:14:57 -0400 Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 18:28:43 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: William Lee Irwin III Cc: rddunlap@osdl.org, colin@colina.demon.co.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Maximum swap space? Message-Id: <20030607182843.70079e07.akpm@digeo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030608005543.GM20413@holomorphy.com> References: <33435.4.64.196.31.1055008200.squirrel@www.osdl.org> <20030607132432.26846b8a.akpm@digeo.com> <20030607205046.GL20413@holomorphy.com> <20030608005543.GM20413@holomorphy.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.0pre1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Jun 2003 01:28:33.0117 (UTC) FILETIME=[464D10D0:01C32D5D] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 554 Lines: 16 William Lee Irwin III wrote: > > Santamarta on #kn tested the following patch to allow up to 64 > swapfiles. Seems hardly worth the extra arithmetic given that the 2G limit is actually bogus? I just did mkswap/swapon of a 52G partition. That used 26MB of lowmem for the swap map btw. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/