I once raised almost the same question on linux-smp. You might want to
search in the archives on linuxhq, february-edition.
(URL: http://www.linuxhq.com/lnxlists/linux-smp/lm_9802/ )
Search for the thread/subject "Off-topic: Swap-partitions."
There's also a lot of advice on how to create large swap-partitions/-files
in the archives, swap on raid and so forth.
FYI: Largest single swap-partition is ~ 128Mb. (But then you can do some
tricks ... ;o)
man mkswap for more information.
Later,
Brian
-----Original Message-----
From: David Todd <dtodd@bbn.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
Date: 21. april 1998 18:52
>O.K. I have a burning question. Sorry if this a bit off topic.
>
>Can anyone tell me or point me to info on the swap size limit and it's
reason?
>
>For those interested, we have here at BBN Technologies coming up on 45
Pentium
>Pro's and II's ranging from 200 to 300 MHz, and more importantly holding
>between 256 to 384 M RAM. Moreover, our application is speech recognition,
>which means we can easily use all the RAM, and then some. It is very easy
to
>imagine a single malloc requesting 130M of RAM.
>
>Because of this, I need to become more aware of the memory limits of the
>2.0.32 and forward kernels, that I may set up machines optimally.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>--
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