Re: Swap size limit

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 18:18 -0300, Eriberto wrote:
> I think that the limit is 2 GB.

Let's all remember that this is per partition and per file, and
that as of 2.4.10, there can be 32 swap areas.

All this I got from:
  man mkswap

> Andreas Rippl escreveu:
> > On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 11:40:58AM -0800, Doug wrote:
> > 
> 
> > I tried setting up more than 2Gb under 2.6.7-1-686-smp, no luck.
> > ...thinking a bit more, that was, however, a swap _file_ ...

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