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Date:      Mon, 10 Apr 2006 12:17:13 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Michael Schuh <michael.schuh@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Maximum Swapsize
Message-ID:  <20060410161713.GA48094@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <1dbad3150604100913hff9fc4dsb125ea541675f992@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <1dbad3150604100913hff9fc4dsb125ea541675f992@mail.gmail.com>

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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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