Re: Is there a limitation on swap parition size linux can use?
Another thing to keep in mind if you're really going to be using more than
2GB of swap is that you should spread that swap space across multiple
spindles if at all possible. I.e., don't create multiple 2GB swap
partitions on a single disk if you don't have to.
On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, Vincent Renardias wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, Walter Tautz wrote:
>
> > I heard that 2Gb is the limit.
>
> Used to be the case. Dunno if it still applies to 2.4 kernels through...
>
> > If so I would have to create distinct swap partitions if I wanted to
> > have more than 2Gb swap? Just wondering...
>
> Yes. (I used to do this with the very early Linux kernels when the swap
> partition size was limited to 128MB.
>
> Cordialement,
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