Maximum Swapsize

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Tuesday 11 April 2006 01:47, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 06:13:07PM +0200, Michael Schuh wrote:
> > Hello @all,
> >
> > last weekend i have setted up an new Machine with
> > 6.1-Beta4. By Installation i have made an Swappartition
> > with the size of 4GB after install in runtime in top
> > it sseems to me that the maximum swap-size is
> > limitied to 2GB or better to INT_MAX ?
>
> It's limited to 16GB on i386 (or maybe 16GB per swap device, I
> forget).  You need a patch if you want to use this much, to avoid
> deadlocks - but nothing limits it out of the box.

Of course if you actually use this much swap your machine will be incomparably 
slow..

The old "swap size = 2x RAM" rule is no longer applicable unless you have a 
very special application.

IMO if you end up using more than 512MB of swap you need more RAM, or less 
applications :)

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