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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 06:13:07PM +0200, Michael Schuh wrote:
> Hello @all,
>=20
> last weekend i have setted up an new Machine with
> 6.1-Beta4. By Installation i have made an Swappartition
> with the size of 4GB after install in runtime in top
> it sseems to me that the maximum swap-size is
> limitied to 2GB or better to INT_MAX ?

It's limited to 16GB on i386 (or maybe 16GB per swap device, I
forget).  You need a patch if you want to use this much, to avoid
deadlocks - but nothing limits it out of the box.

Kris
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