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Subject: Re: warning: total configured swap (8960911 pages) exceeds maximum
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On Thu, 17 Oct 2013 19:14:33 +0100
Frank Leonhardt wrote:

> On 17/10/2013 17:01, RW wrote:

> > The hard limit that's mentioned there is i386 only. I think that may
> > have changed a bit since 8.2.
> >
> This was running 8.2 on AMD64, and it's definitely there (and with
> the same value as the i386 version). The code's there on 9.1, as is
> the manifest constant in param.h and it's still the same value. I
> haven't tried 9.2 yet. So what am I missing about i386?


The changed was merged into 9-stable in September 2012, 9.1 was
branched in August.