From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
Cc: colin@colina.demon.co.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Maximum swap space?
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 13:24:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030607132432.26846b8a.akpm@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <33435.4.64.196.31.1055008200.squirrel@www.osdl.org>
"Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org> wrote:
>
> 3. Swap space limits
>
> Linux 2.4.10 and later, and Linux 2.5 support any combination of swap
> files or swap devices to a maximum number of 32 of them. Prior to Linux
> 2.4.10, the limit was any combination of 8 swap files or swap devices. On
> x86 architecture systems, each of these swap areas has a limit of 2 GiB.
The limit is now 16 swapfiles/devices, because one pte bit got
stolen for nonlinear VMA pte's.
I'm not sure where the 2G limit comes from?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-07 20:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-07 8:55 Maximum swap space? Colin Paul Adams
2003-06-07 17:50 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-06-07 20:24 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-06-07 20:50 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-06-08 0:55 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-06-08 1:28 ` Andrew Morton
2003-06-08 1:38 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-06-08 6:31 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-06-07 21:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-06-07 21:49 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-06-07 22:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-06-07 22:43 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-06-07 22:28 ` Rik van Riel
2003-06-10 19:00 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-06-10 19:29 ` William Lee Irwin III
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2003-06-08 22:51 Andries.Brouwer
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