Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262192AbVAJKJp (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jan 2005 05:09:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262193AbVAJKJp (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jan 2005 05:09:45 -0500 Received: from lucidpixels.com ([66.45.37.187]:18840 "HELO lucidpixels.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262192AbVAJKJm (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jan 2005 05:09:42 -0500 Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 05:09:39 -0500 (EST) From: Justin Piszcz X-X-Sender: jpiszcz@p500 To: Grzegorz Kulewski cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Re: Support for > 2GB swap partitions? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1947 Lines: 62 Oops, for some reason when I created the partitions with fdisk it did not create the swap parititon correctly even though I specified it was type swap. mkswap /dev/sda2 && swapon /dev/sda2 fixed the problem, thanks. On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, Grzegorz Kulewski wrote: > On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, Justin Piszcz wrote: > >> I remember reading in the past that > 2GB swap partitions were supported in >> Linux as of recent util-linux packages with a 2.6 kernel or am I wrong? >> >> # fdisk -l >> >> Disk /dev/sda: 251.0 GB, 251000193024 bytes >> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30515 cylinders >> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes >> >> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System >> /dev/sda1 * 1 16 128488+ 83 Linux >> /dev/sda2 17 526 4096575 82 Linux swap >> /dev/sda3 527 30515 240886642+ 83 Linux >> >> # top >> top - 19:33:43 up 3:26, 1 user, load average: 1.33, 2.63, 1.66 >> Tasks: 166 total, 1 running, 165 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie >> Cpu(s): 9.1% us, 3.4% sy, 0.0% ni, 83.5% id, 1.8% wa, 0.1% hi, 2.2% >> si >> Mem: 2075192k total, 2062540k used, 12652k free, 64k buffers >> Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 1608272k cached >> >> >> Only recognizes 2GB of 4GB? > > No. It looks like you forgot to enable your swap at all! 2GB is your RAM. > Your swap is 0. > > Try > $ swapon /dev/sda2 > > or > > $ swapon -a > > if your swap is listed in /etc/fstab > > (possibly with > > $ mkswap /dev/sda2 > > before). > > I am using 4 GB swaps on many machines (x86 and x86_64) for long time without > any problems. > > > Grzegorz Kulewski > - 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/