Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 09:24:25 -0700 From: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> To: Lin Jui-Nan Eric <ericlin@tamama.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Max size of one swap slice Message-ID: <20080805162425.GO44815@bunrab.catwhisker.org> In-Reply-To: <47713ee10808050839k5b258831x66bc52f70b2c355b@mail.gmail.com> References: <47713ee10808050839k5b258831x66bc52f70b2c355b@mail.gmail.com>
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--pKvQgaf82iZAytyH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 11:39:11PM +0800, Lin Jui-Nan Eric wrote: > ... > Recently we found that we can only allocate 32GB for one swap slice. Yes. > Does there is any sysctl oid or any kernel option to increase it? Why > we have this restriction? I don't know why, though I suspect it may have something to do with the way storage in the swap space is allocated & addressed. You may, however, have more than 1 swap space. (Per man pages for swapon(8) and swapoff(8), the default maximum is 4.) Peace, david --=20 David H. Wolfskill david@catwhisker.org I submit that "conspiracy" would be an appropriate collective noun for cats. See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key. --pKvQgaf82iZAytyH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkiYfrgACgkQmprOCmdXAD1oaQCdG0hyMqiFvtJv1UCG61xKhe57 OR0Anjim/ru3F1DvMlzVdZCCQwtbVfN8 =kpln -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pKvQgaf82iZAytyH--
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