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Re: [suse-programming-e] 4 GB address space ?
- From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 15:44:03 -0600
- Message-id: <4043AEA2.C8464A50@xxxxxxxxxx>
Steven Augart wrote:
> William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> > How do I get more than 1
> > GB of swap space (or am I stuck there) ? Thanks again.
>
> First, an easy hack is to add more swap partitions or swap files (if it's inconvenient to add a partition, you can create a physical file in the filesystem to swap to. You probably know this already.)
> If you are facing a limit of 1 GB, then add them 1 GB at a time. You can have multiple swap partitions
> going at the same time.
>
> Second, are you facing the 1 GB limit in the "mkswap" command or in some higher-level tool? If higher level, then you might get it to work by using "mkswap".
>
> --Steve Augart
>
> --
> Steven Augart
>
> Jikes RVM, open source Research Virtual Machine:
> http://oss.software.ibm.com/jikesrvm
>
> Office: +1 914/784-6743
> T.J. Watson Research Center, IBM
I was working through the installer & it wouldn't let me make a swap partition larger than 1 GB. I prefer partitions to files for swapping . I was really kinda asking if this was (still) a Linux
limitation, it was in the past (actually the limit used to be 2 GB per swap device ....).
> William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> > How do I get more than 1
> > GB of swap space (or am I stuck there) ? Thanks again.
>
> First, an easy hack is to add more swap partitions or swap files (if it's inconvenient to add a partition, you can create a physical file in the filesystem to swap to. You probably know this already.)
> If you are facing a limit of 1 GB, then add them 1 GB at a time. You can have multiple swap partitions
> going at the same time.
>
> Second, are you facing the 1 GB limit in the "mkswap" command or in some higher-level tool? If higher level, then you might get it to work by using "mkswap".
>
> --Steve Augart
>
> --
> Steven Augart
>
> Jikes RVM, open source Research Virtual Machine:
> http://oss.software.ibm.com/jikesrvm
>
> Office: +1 914/784-6743
> T.J. Watson Research Center, IBM
I was working through the installer & it wouldn't let me make a swap partition larger than 1 GB. I prefer partitions to files for swapping . I was really kinda asking if this was (still) a Linux
limitation, it was in the past (actually the limit used to be 2 GB per swap device ....).
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