2GB swap partition limit?
Peter Jones
pjones at redhat.com
Thu Mar 9 21:09:58 UTC 2006
On Sun, 2006-03-05 at 13:24 +0100, Émeric Maschino wrote:
> My workstation has been upgraded to 6GB RAM. I let anaconda automatically manage
> the partitions on the disk. It created a 4GB swap partition in a LVM volume.
> But top, free and gnome-system-monitor all report that my swap space is 2GB
> (more precisely, 1.9GB). IIRC, there was a 2GB limit partition for the swap
> size in the past, but I thought this has been overcame.
Hrm, that's a bit odd. Anaconda by default won't create a swap device
larger than 2GB unless you specifically set the size higher. You're
sure it's a 4GB LV it's on?
Can we see lvdisplay's output?
Also, what does /proc/swaps say?
--
Peter
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