From: Raymond Jennings <shentino@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [problem?] swapon: swap partition/volume size capped at 32G?
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2013 11:15:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1372961710.16288.1.camel@warfang> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1372886473.1079.3.camel@warfang>
On Wed, 2013-07-03 at 14:21 -0700, Raymond Jennings wrote:
> Ok, so I just upgraded to 3.10.0 (gentoo system) and made a nice big
> 64GiB swap volume on lvm as usual.
>
> Suddenly, swapon doesn't recognize more than 32GiB, as top lists only
> that much swap space.
>
> swapon using *two* separate 32GiB partitions works fine, but for some
> reason a swap partition bigger than 32GiB isn't fully recognized.
>
> Previous kernel versions IIRC recognized the entire swap partition.
>
> Is something wrong or is this new behavior standard?
>
Hold on a minute, I just found out something ate my kernel config and
turned off PAE when I upgraded.
This in turn shrunk my pte's from 64 bits to 32 bits and is probably
what killed >32G swap extents.
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2013-07-03 21:21 [problem?] swapon: swap partition/volume size capped at 32G? Raymond Jennings
2013-07-04 18:15 ` Raymond Jennings [this message]
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