Re: [SLE] Maximum swap size
From: Allen (gorebofh_at_comcast.net)
Date: 03/06/05
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Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 14:51:43 -0500 To: suse-linux-e@suse.com
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 01:44:35PM -0500, James Knott wrote:
> Hans Witvliet wrote:
> >There used to be, a max size of a single swap-area chunk.
> >Afaik, it was 128MB, kernels 1.x or so (so long, long time ago)
> >Had to define two or four area's...
> >
> >But what's the point?
> >Can't define swapspace larger than a free partition on your drive, and
> >if you have partitions upto or larger that 16EB, i'll like to know the
> >name of the hardware supplier.
I can't even imagine a use for that much of a Swap.... RAM, sure, but Swap?
No.
> >Anyway, if you have need for such a swap-space, i think you have other
> >worries...
> >Not?
>
>
> This was more of a curiousity type question. Also, IIRC, you can have
> multiple swap partitions, so terabyte swap space is now a possibility,
> though I'd imagine exabyte swap is still a while away.
Not economical though, RAM would be more....useful. Swap is slow but great
for when you're low on RAM.... But if you can afford that much disk space,
I don't think you'd have problems affording RAM either in the first place.
> Incidentally, it wasn't all that long ago, that a fried was bragging
> that he had a total (4 or 5 drives) of 1 GB disk space on his OS/2 system!
All that wasted on OS/2?
>
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