Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261352AbTFJSvg (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jun 2003 14:51:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261151AbTFJSvZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jun 2003 14:51:25 -0400 Received: from air-2.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:45995 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261352AbTFJStW (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jun 2003 14:49:22 -0400 Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 12:00:39 -0700 From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: Rik van Riel Cc: colin@colina.demon.co.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Maximum swap space? Message-Id: <20030610120039.31e8ee47.rddunlap@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: OSDL X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.11 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) X-Face: +5V?h'hZQPB9kW Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 990 Lines: 27 On Sat, 7 Jun 2003 18:28:46 -0400 (EDT) Rik van Riel wrote: | On 7 Jun 2003, Colin Paul Adams wrote: | | > I am somewhat confused about how much swap space you can have with a | > 2.4 series kernel. If I read the mkswap man page, I get the impression | > that I could have up to 8x2GB of swap space for a total of 16 GB, but | > reading the RedHat reference guide, it says 2GB maximum. | | That piece of documentation is out of date. I'm using a | 20 GB swap partition on one of my test systems, with a | 2.4 kernel. So do we know what the 2.4.current and 2.5.current limits are? You have used a 20 GB swap partition on 2.4.recent. Andrew has used (tested) a 52 GB partition on some unmentioned kernel. Thanks, -- ~Randy - 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/