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From: chrisl@vmware.com
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, chrisl@gnuchina.org,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: writepage return value check in vmscan.c
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 11:29:55 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021028192955.GB1564@vmware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021028192214.GI13972@dualathlon.random>

On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 08:22:14PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> 
> swap space doesn't need to be twice as big as ram. That's fixed long
> ago.
> 
> swap+ram is the total amount of virtual memory that you can use in
> vmware.

Cool.

> 
> > 
> > And the swap partition has limit as 2G. So we need to setup 8 swap
> > partitions if we want 16G swap.
> 
> that's a silly restriction of mkswap, the kernel doesn't care, it can
> handle way more than 2G (however there's an high bound at some
> unpractical level, to go safe the math limit should be re-encoded in
> mkswap, of course it changes for every arch because the pte layout is
> different).

Thanks

Chris




  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-28 19:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-24  8:25 writepage return value check in vmscan.c chrisl
2002-10-24  8:36 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-24  9:15   ` Alan Cox
2002-10-24 11:44     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-10-24 16:12       ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-24 17:59     ` chrisl
2002-10-24 11:31   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-10-24 18:30     ` chrisl
2002-10-24 18:40       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-10-24 19:14         ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-24 19:25           ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-24 17:57   ` chrisl
2002-10-24 18:33     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-10-24 19:15       ` chrisl
2002-10-24 20:41         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-10-24 21:17           ` chrisl
2002-10-24 20:46         ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-24 21:23           ` chrisl
2002-10-24 21:29             ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-25 16:11               ` Paul Larson
2002-10-25 16:31                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-25 17:07                 ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-25 18:44         ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-28 19:17           ` chrisl
2002-10-28 19:53             ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-28 20:38               ` chrisl
2002-10-28 21:14               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-10-28  8:28         ` Christoph Rohland
2002-10-28 18:44           ` chrisl
2002-10-28 19:22             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-10-28 19:29               ` chrisl [this message]
2002-10-29  6:10               ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-10-29  7:08                 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-10-28 19:58       ` chrisl
2002-10-28 21:32         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-10-30  4:13           ` chrisl

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