RE: Swap - suggestions needed

[Greg Hosler <greg hosler per sg>]

according to the mkswap man page, the largest supported swap size is about 2gb.

       The maximum useful size of a swap area now depends on the architecture.
       It  is  roughly  2GiB on i386, PPC, m68k, ARM, 1GiB on sparc, 512MiB on
       mips, 128GiB on alpha and 3TiB on sparc64.

-Greg

On 04-Jul-2004 Marc Brown wrote:
> Which of the below swap configuration is better in
> forming a 20 GB swap space
> 
>    - Small swapchunks of size 2 GB each 
>    - One huge swap partition of size 20 GB.
> 
> Which one is better for RHEL3 
> 
> ( I am facing issues in having 1 huge 20 GB swap -
> getting 'kjournal' errors in the machine )
> 
> Please suggest
> 
> - Marc
> 
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| Greg Hosler                                   greg hosler per sg    |
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