Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 7 Jun 2003 13:24:32 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: Maximum swap space? |
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"Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org> wrote: > > 3. Swap space limits > > Linux 2.4.10 and later, and Linux 2.5 support any combination of swap > files or swap devices to a maximum number of 32 of them. Prior to Linux > 2.4.10, the limit was any combination of 8 swap files or swap devices. On > x86 architecture systems, each of these swap areas has a limit of 2 GiB.
The limit is now 16 swapfiles/devices, because one pte bit got stolen for nonlinear VMA pte's.
I'm not sure where the 2G limit comes from? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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