On Sun, 2006-03-05 at 13:24 +0100, Émeric Maschino wrote: > Hi, > > I didn't notice this earlier. On Feb. 11th, I completely reinstalled Fedora Core > on my Itanium workstation using the FTP method. All ran flawlessly and, by > contrast to my first attempt, the anaconda graphical screens were correctly > displayed. > > My workstation has been upgraded to 6GB RAM. I let anaconda automatically manage > the partitions on the disk. It created a 4GB swap partition in a LVM volume. > But top, free and gnome-system-monitor all report that my swap space is 2GB > (more precisely, 1.9GB). IIRC, there was a 2GB limit partition for the swap > size in the past, but I thought this has been overcame. > > Isn't it the case? > > Cheers, > > Émeric > Weird, The "new swap" type (mkswap -v1, default) which came in kernel v2.2 (?) fixed the 2GB limit on swap space that came with the "old swap" type. (mkswap -v0). E.g. (my workstation; FC4/64) [gilboa@gilboa-home-dev ~]$ cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 2048624 kB MemFree: 21516 kB Buffers: 125596 kB Cached: 1029680 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 1397408 kB Inactive: 301004 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 2048624 kB LowFree: 21516 kB SwapTotal: 4063224 kB SwapFree: 4062868 kB Dirty: 1360 kB Writeback: 0 kB Mapped: 721168 kB Slab: 230228 kB CommitLimit: 5087536 kB Committed_AS: 1664788 kB PageTables: 17560 kB VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB VmallocUsed: 38064 kB VmallocChunk: 34359696379 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 Hugepagesize: 2048 kB [gilboa@gilboa-home-dev ~]$ cat /proc/swaps Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/mapper/VolMD-LogSwap partition 4063224 356 -1 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
