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From: James Kelty <jamesk@everbase.net>
To: Linux Admin <linux-admin@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Swap partition sizes
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 13:06:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CC71046.9090306@everbase.net> (raw)

Hello! Someone here set up a new machine with 4 Gigs of memory, and they 
gave the system 8 Gigs of swap. Now, they have a problem. Apparently the 
OS is only recognizing about two gigs of it.

Here is the fidsk, and meminfo stuff in that order...

Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2233 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *         1       383   3076416   83  Linux
/dev/sda2           384      1403   8193150   82  Linux swap
/dev/sda3          1404      2233   6666975    5  Extended
/dev/sda5          1404      1913   4096543+  83  Linux
/dev/sda6          1914      2233   2570368+  83  Lin

Mem:  4154732544 4149997568  4734976  5500928 32456704 3929620480
Swap: 2147467264        0 2147467264
MemTotal:      4057356 kB
MemFree:          4624 kB
MemShared:        5372 kB
Buffers:         31696 kB
Cached:        3837520 kB
SwapCached:          0 kB
Active:          13440 kB
Inact_dirty:   3858116 kB
Inact_clean:      3032 kB
Inact_target:     1244 kB
HighTotal:     3211264 kB
HighFree:         2036 kB
LowTotal:       846092 kB
LowFree:          2588 kB
SwapTotal:     2097136 kB
SwapFree:      2097136 kB
NrSwapPages:    524284 pages


I seem to remember somewhere along the line that Linux has a limit on 
the swap partition size. Is this ture? I just can't seem to find a 
refference to it!

Thanks!

-James
-- 
James Kelty
Sr. Unix Systems Administrator
Everbase Systems, LLC
jamesk@everbase.net
541.488.0801


             reply	other threads:[~2002-04-24 20:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-24 20:06 James Kelty [this message]
2002-04-25  7:06 ` Swap partition sizes Horia Chirculescu
2002-04-26 19:08   ` Christopher Slater

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