Re: swap files

[Alan Peery <peery io com>]

Cameron Simpson wrote:

> On 17:49 15 Feb 2002, Hidong Kim <kim emeraldbiostructures com> wrote:
> | I have a machine with an 800 MB swap partition.  To run a particular
> | application, I need 1,000 MB swap.  It appears that I can't create a
> | swap file bigger than 4,880 kB.  Is this correct?  How would I get more
> | swap space without having to re-partition?  Thanks,
>
> Really? I routinely make bigger swap files than that.

What file system are these swap files going into?  He could be running into an
issue regarding supported file size.

Alan