I guess I look like a fool now... Oh well, it wouldn't be the first time. I looked at the manpage, and it actually DOES hurt to have too much swap space:
Note that before 2.1.117 the kernel allocated one byte for
each page, while it now allocates two bytes, so that tak?
ing a swap area of 2 GiB in use might require 2 MiB of
kernel memory.
Also:
The maximum useful size of a swap area now depends on the architecture.
It is roughly 2GiB on i386, PPC, m68k, ARM, 1GiB on sparc, 512MiB
on mips, 128GiB on alpha and 3TiB on sparc64.
(Note: MiB stands for 10^6 bytes, rather than MB which can stand for 10^6 or
2^20 bytes.)
So I guess there is a 2GB max on ix86 machines. :-( (tm)
HG AYBABTU!
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