All of lore.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Eriberto <eriberto@eriberto.pro.br>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: swap: which is the maximum size allowed?
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:01:34 -0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <epja0g$5fn$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1HBIkM-0001I5-9q@be1.lrz>

Ok. But, mkswap man is old (1999). However, from Linux Partition HOWTO:

"footnote: "official" max swap size: With kernel 2.4, the limit is 64
swap spaces at a maximum of 64Gb each, although this is not reflected in
the man page for mkswap. With the 64 bit opteron on the 2.6 kernel, 128
swap areas are permitted, each a whopping 16 Tb! (thanks to Peter Chubb
for the calculation)"

I want to know: why 64 GB???

Thanks,

Eriberto - www.eriberto.pro.br

Bodo Eggert escreveu:
> Look into the manpage of mkswap. It's 2 G x 32 swap partitions,
> minus a tiny overhead.


  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-28 23:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <7IoP9-5nQ-27@gated-at.bofh.it>
2007-01-28 22:43 ` swap: which is the maximum size allowed? Bodo Eggert
2007-01-28 23:01   ` Eriberto [this message]
2007-01-29  0:19     ` Matt Mackall
2007-01-29 19:46 Eriberto
2007-01-29 20:02 ` Christoph Lameter
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-01-28 20:09 Eriberto

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to='epja0g$5fn$1@sea.gmane.org' \
    --to=eriberto@eriberto.pro.br \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body. 
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.