Re: 128MB Swap-Space Limit

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 11 Aug 1998 16:54:15 +0100 (BST)

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> Is there any deeper reason, why a single swap-space is limited to 128MB (on
> i386)? From my understanding of the kernel-source and initial testing (I have
> a dual P2 under 2.1.115 with a single 500MB swap-space running fine) it is
> rather trivial to increase the limit to an arbitrary size. So my question is,
> why hasn't anybody done this already?

Stephen Tweedie did, and also fixed the horrible horrible vm bug in the
current 2.1.x where any user can create 128 mappings of a page and it
leaks.

His patch is in 2.1.115ac*

Alan

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