From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
colin@colina.demon.co.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Maximum swap space?
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 12:29:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030610192921.GD26348@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030610120039.31e8ee47.rddunlap@osdl.org>
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 12:00:39PM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> So do we know what the 2.4.current and 2.5.current limits are?
> You have used a 20 GB swap partition on 2.4.recent.
> Andrew has used (tested) a 52 GB partition on some unmentioned
> kernel.
I apologize for failing to do a proper wrap-up. AIUI, we have:
(1) both 2.4.x and 2.5.x kernels support swapspaces of up to 64GB in size
(2) 2.4.x supports 64 swapspaces and 2.5.x supports 32 (not reparable)
(3) mkswap(8) needs fixes for creating swapspaces larger than 2GB merged
back to util-linux; aeb (util-linux maintainer) has publicly
requested the code be sent back to him for merging, presumably
with some evidence of its correctness. One of the several distro
people who are maintaining such patches against mkswap(8) is
going to send that in.
-- wli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-10 19:17 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
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 [this message]
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2003-06-08 22:51 Andries.Brouwer
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