Re: Big Swap...

Andreas Bombe (andreas.bombe@munich.netsurf.de)
Fri, 14 Jan 2000 16:58:13 +0100

On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 11:31:44PM -0800, Robert Dinse wrote:
>
> I thought I remembered seeing something here a while back about a utility
> to make large swap partitions.

The 128MB limitation is obsolete. You need a newer mkswap.

[andreasb@storm andreasb]$ /sbin/mkswap --version
mkswap from util-linux-2.10d

According to the man page:

The maximum useful size of a swap
area now depends on the architecture. It is roughly 2GB
on i386, PPC, m68k, ARM, 1GB on sparc, 512MB on mips,
128GB on alpha and 3TB on sparc64.

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          Andreas E. Bombe <andreas.bombe@munich.netsurf.de>
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