Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261444AbTFJTR0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jun 2003 15:17:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261688AbTFJTRS (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jun 2003 15:17:18 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:27353 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261444AbTFJTQV (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jun 2003 15:16:21 -0400 Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 12:29:21 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: "Randy.Dunlap" Cc: Rik van Riel , colin@colina.demon.co.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Maximum swap space? Message-ID: <20030610192921.GD26348@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , "Randy.Dunlap" , Rik van Riel , colin@colina.demon.co.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20030610120039.31e8ee47.rddunlap@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030610120039.31e8ee47.rddunlap@osdl.org> 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: 1072 Lines: 26 On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 12:00:39PM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > 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. I apologize for failing to do a proper wrap-up. AIUI, we have: (1) both 2.4.x and 2.5.x kernels support swapspaces of up to 64GB in size (2) 2.4.x supports 64 swapspaces and 2.5.x supports 32 (not reparable) (3) mkswap(8) needs fixes for creating swapspaces larger than 2GB merged back to util-linux; aeb (util-linux maintainer) has publicly requested the code be sent back to him for merging, presumably with some evidence of its correctness. One of the several distro people who are maintaining such patches against mkswap(8) is going to send that in. -- 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/