Re: Large memory question

Jakub Jelinek (jakub@redhat.com)
Mon, 29 Nov 1999 14:37:07 +0100

On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 01:20:23PM +0000, Matthew Kirkwood wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Would I be right in thinking that your large memory work
> could conceivably extend to allowing a non large-mem box
> to have RAM + swap > virtual address space?
>
> Could, for example, a box with 1Gb of RAM have 8Gb of swap
> space?

??
You can already have 8Gb of swap space in a box with 1Gb RAM.
Say on ia32 you have at most 8 swap partition/files, at most 2Gb each,
that's 16Gb, right?

Cheers,
Jakub
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