Re: Swap maximum size documented ?

From: David BalaÅic
Date: Wed Jun 01 2005 - 08:29:19 EST


Arjan van de Ven <arjan <at> infradead.org> writes:

>
>
> > > The mkwap(8) man page claims, that currently the limit is
> > > 32 swap areas of maximum 2 gigabyte size (for x86 arch).
> > >
> > > Is that correct ?
> >
> > Not on 2.6 kernels, no.
>
> it's not even true for 2.4 kernels btw; it was a 2.2 and before issue

OK, so can anyone tell the actual, current limits ?

Regards,
David

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