Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:11:58 +0300 From: Eygene Ryabinkin <rea-fbsd@codelabs.ru> To: Ian FREISLICH <ianf@clue.co.za> Cc: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RC2 Available Message-ID: <HNc5KTwAOlChZd/l%2BN1vPPiVFRE@3SQePivZkcJXerr/O1l2SLu1NoU> In-Reply-To: <E1JPCWL-0000pN-IF@clue.co.za> References: <E1JPCWL-0000pN-IF@clue.co.za>
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Ian, Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 09:59:09AM +0200, Ian FREISLICH wrote: > I selected auto defaults for the slice editor. The system I installed > (amd64) on has 16GB of RAM yet it only assigned 4GB for swap. I > remember reading that on amd64 minidumps could corrupt neighbouring > filesystems, so a full dump could be up to 16GB. There won't be > enough space for a full dump. That said, 16GB is quite a *lot* to > swap out and I'm not sure how the system would perform under that > scenario. > > What's the prevailing wisdom? Is this a variable storage type bug > in the installer - int in stead of an off_t or size_t? It is the limitation in the code, introduced in revision 1.111: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.sbin/sysinstall/label.c.diff?r1=1.110;r2=1.111 ---- +/* + * Swap size limit for auto-partitioning (4G). + */ +#define SWAP_AUTO_LIMIT_SIZE 4096 ----- -- Eygene
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