Max swap size ?

Michel Dänzer michdaen at iiic.ethz.ch
Wed Dec 5 05:37:23 EST 2001


On Tue, 2001-12-04 at 17:35, Christopher Murtagh wrote:
>
>  Thanks for the replies.
>
> On 4 Dec 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> >That used to be the case before kernel 2.2 IIRC. Nowadays the limit is
> >in the gigabytes. FWIW I'm using a 400 meg swap partition without
> >problems.
>
>  Ok, well that's good to hear.
>
> >Are you sure it only hit swap then? I can't remember ever seeing active
> >but completely unused swap space, even when RAM usage was low.
> >
> >The bottom line is yes, you likely have another problem.
>
>  This isn't though.. :-(
>
> Mem:  1024100K av,  774636K used,  249464K free,  0K shrd,  179708K  buff
> Swap:  524280K av,       0K used,  524280K free             490400K  cached
>
>  this is what my machine is like at the moment. So, from what you are
> saying, my problem lies elsewhere (ie. is not swap *size*), but is likely
> swap related?

Or maybe it's related to the huge amount of RAM you have, but others
will know better.


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