RE: Swap - suggestions needed

[Marc Brown <rrgroups yahoo com>]

RHEL3 doc on swap - 
https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/sysadmin-guide/ch-swapspace.html
 says swap chunk should not be more than 2GB .

Is the doc not uptodate ? or shouldnt we use more than
2GB ?

- MArc



--- Rik van Riel <riel redhat com> wrote:
> 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 Looks like that documentation is a bit out of date.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...
> 
> -- 
> "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in
> the first place.
> Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as
> possible, you are,
> by definition, not smart enough to debug it." -
> Brian W. Kernighan
> 
> 



	
		
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