Re: Maximum swap space?

Rik van Riel
2003-06-07T22:15:04Z

On 7 Jun 2003, Colin Paul Adams wrote:

> I am somewhat confused about how much swap space you can have with a
> 2.4 series kernel. If I read the mkswap man page, I get the impression
> that I could have up to 8x2GB of swap space for a total of 16 GB, but
> reading the RedHat reference guide, it says 2GB maximum.

That piece of documentation is out of date. I'm using a
20 GB swap partition on one of my test systems, with a
2.4 kernel.