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Re: [SLE] Enough space for 8.2?
- From: Andre Truter <andre.truter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 15 Apr 2003 08:30:23 +0200
- Message-id: <1050388222.27458.100.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 08:08, Jim Norton wrote:
> Ok, so I did a "free" to determine if swap is enabled and I got
>
> jrn@falcon:~> free
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 1033188 992744 40444 0 44768 810888
> -/+ buffers/cache: 137088 896100
> Swap: 2097136 21648 2075488
> jrn@falcon:~>
>
>
> Now my swap partition is SUPPOSED to be 5Gig. Why is being reported as
> only 2gig?
>
AFAIK, there is a limit of 2 GB per swap partition. I don't know if the
limit is still there in the newer kernels.
You can generate 5 GB of swap by splitting it up into 3 swap partions:
2 GB, 2 GB, 1 GB.
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Andre Truter
Software Engineer
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ICQ #40935899 AIM: trusoftzaf
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> Ok, so I did a "free" to determine if swap is enabled and I got
>
> jrn@falcon:~> free
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 1033188 992744 40444 0 44768 810888
> -/+ buffers/cache: 137088 896100
> Swap: 2097136 21648 2075488
> jrn@falcon:~>
>
>
> Now my swap partition is SUPPOSED to be 5Gig. Why is being reported as
> only 2gig?
>
AFAIK, there is a limit of 2 GB per swap partition. I don't know if the
limit is still there in the newer kernels.
You can generate 5 GB of swap by splitting it up into 3 swap partions:
2 GB, 2 GB, 1 GB.
--
Andre Truter
Software Engineer
Registered Linux user #185282
ICQ #40935899 AIM: trusoftzaf
http://www.trusoft.za.net
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