Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3139 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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The Friday 2006-10-06 at 08:16 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 01:57 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > > Does the 2gb limit on swap filesystem still apply?  Or did I get lost in
> > > kernel 2.2 days?
> > 
> > No, I have a 6 GiB swap.
> 
> Sorry, I worded my question poorly.  I know you can make more than 2GB,
> I have several servers with 4GB.
> 
> What I meant is is the size of a single swap partition still limited to
> 2GB?

Then I worded my answer poorly: my 6 GiB swap are in a single partition :-)

I don't know the limit or if there is one. There were two previously: the 
kernel and the swap area format itself.


> Reason I'm asking is that I want to get suspend (to ram and to disc)
> working on my notebook, which has 2GB RAM, so I need at least 2GB swap.

You can do it, no problem - on that side at least :-)


- -- 
Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.

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