Re: swap (was Re: Regarding fdisk....)

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam trinity edu>]

On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 10:46:20PM -0500, Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote:
> Aaron Konstam <akonstam trinity edu> writes:
> 
> > On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 04:49:19AM +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > > :On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 16:11, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > > :
> > > :For example I am still waiting for someone to tell me if swapon says I
> > > :have 8G of swap and free and top say I have 4G of swap which is correct?
> > > :It seems to be a bug that no one cares about.
> > > 
> > > "swapon -s"? If so, it just prints "cat /proc/swaps".
> > > 
> > > But since 2^32 = 4 GiB, it might be that "top" has problems with
> > > values bigger than 32 bit here.
> > That is certainly a possibility but I would like someone to tell me that
> > this is the problem. 
> 
> Bugzilla is a bug channel, not a support channel. The purpose is to
> use this to improve RHL (from looking at the mkswap manpage, I would
> suspect it caps at around 2 GiB/instance)
> 
> -- 
> Trond Eivind Glomsrød
> Red Hat, Inc.
Ok I can drop this. I started this in response to Trond's comment that it
is not a bug unless it is in bugzilla. Well this is in bugzilla so it must
be a bug.
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