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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
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