RE: Swap - suggestions needed

[Mark Henshall <Mark Henshall cancer org uk>]

It looks like the 2Gb limit is out of date:

http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0306.0/1728.html

Here's the start of the thread:

http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0306.0/1625.html


Mark Henshall


Quoting 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 Looks like that documentation is a bit out of date.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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