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Date:      Tue, 9 Aug 2011 08:16:46 -0700
From:      David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>
To:        Daniel Kalchev <daniel@digsys.bg>
Cc:        FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: 32GB limit per swap device?
Message-ID:  <20110809151646.GF1814@albert.catwhisker.org>
In-Reply-To: <4E4143A6.6030307@digsys.bg>
References:  <4E4143A6.6030307@digsys.bg>

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On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 05:26:46PM +0300, Daniel Kalchev wrote:
> I am trying to set up 64GB partitions for swap for a system that has=20
> 64GB of RAM (with the idea to dump kernel core etc). But, on 8-stable as=
=20
> of today I get:
>=20
> WARNING: reducing size to maximum of 67108864 blocks per swap unit
>=20
> Is there workaround for this limitation?

While FreeBSD cannot address more than 32GB per swap space, it permits
as many as 32 swap spaces to be active concurrently.  (Sorry; I'm not
finding the reference for this just now.)

Peace,
david
--=20
David H. Wolfskill				david@catwhisker.org
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