Re: Maximum swap space?

Rik van Riel (riel@redhat.com)
Sat, 7 Jun 2003 18:28:46 -0400 (EDT)


On 7 Jun 2003, Colin Paul Adams wrote:

> I am somewhat confused about how much swap space you can have with a
> 2.4 series kernel. If I read the mkswap man page, I get the impression
> that I could have up to 8x2GB of swap space for a total of 16 GB, but
> reading the RedHat reference guide, it says 2GB maximum.

That piece of documentation is out of date. I'm using a
20 GB swap partition on one of my test systems, with a
2.4 kernel.

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