Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264610AbTFHGTM (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jun 2003 02:19:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264643AbTFHGTM (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jun 2003 02:19:12 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:39626 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264610AbTFHGTL (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jun 2003 02:19:11 -0400 Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 23:31:44 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Andrew Morton , rddunlap@osdl.org, colin@colina.demon.co.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Maximum swap space? Message-ID: <20030608063144.GL8978@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Andrew Morton , rddunlap@osdl.org, colin@colina.demon.co.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <33435.4.64.196.31.1055008200.squirrel@www.osdl.org> <20030607132432.26846b8a.akpm@digeo.com> <20030607205046.GL20413@holomorphy.com> <20030608005543.GM20413@holomorphy.com> <20030607182843.70079e07.akpm@digeo.com> <20030608013827.GK8978@holomorphy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030608013827.GK8978@holomorphy.com> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1104 Lines: 25 On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 06:28:43PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: >> 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. On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 06:38:27PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > It's not clear precisely who or what would benefit from it; however, > the decreased maximum of 32 swapfiles on i386 is a regression vs. > 2.4.x's limit of 64, in whatever sense something no one cares about is > actually a regression (in principle they could have merely not spoken > up about it). > In other words, if someone feels itchy because the number went down > from 2.4.x, here it is. If not, I'm fine with leaving it be. I went and worked out why it's wrong (_PAGE_PROTNONE) clash. Whatever you do, don't apply it. -- wli - 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/