On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 06:08:40PM -0200, Eriberto wrote: > I am trying understand the swap. I would like to know which is the > maximum swap size on i386. Is 64 MB? If yes, how to know the origin of > this "magic" number? I don't found it (Internet). 64MB sounds way too low, I'm running with 2GB of swapspace: erik@arthur:~ > uname -a Linux arthur 2.6.20-rc4-ged56c49a #1 Tue Jan 9 17:11:02 CET 2007 i686 GNU/Linux erik@arthur:~ > cat /proc/swaps Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/hda6 partition 2008084 68 -1 There used to be a 1GB per swap partition (or file) limit, but that's long gone (somewhere during 2.3 development, IIRC). No idea what the current limit is, though. Erik -- They're all fools. Don't worry. Darwin may be slow, but he'll eventually get them. -- Matthew Lammers in alt.sysadmin.recovery
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