RE: Swap - suggestions needed

[Rik van Riel <riel redhat com>]

On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Greg Hosler wrote:

> 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.

Looks like that documentation is a bit out of date.
I've been running Taroon kernels with a 20GB swap
partition for about a year now...

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