From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Kelty Subject: Swap partition sizes Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 13:06:30 -0700 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3CC71046.9090306@everbase.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Linux Admin 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