On Tuesday 11 April 2006 01:47, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 06:13:07PM +0200, Michael Schuh wrote: > > Hello @all, > > > > last weekend i have setted up an new Machine with > > 6.1-Beta4. By Installation i have made an Swappartition > > with the size of 4GB after install in runtime in top > > it sseems to me that the maximum swap-size is > > limitied to 2GB or better to INT_MAX ? > > It's limited to 16GB on i386 (or maybe 16GB per swap device, I > forget). You need a patch if you want to use this much, to avoid > deadlocks - but nothing limits it out of the box.
Of course if you actually use this much swap your machine will be incomparably slow.. The old "swap size = 2x RAM" rule is no longer applicable unless you have a very special application. IMO if you end up using more than 512MB of swap you need more RAM, or less applications :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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