2GB swap partition limit?

[Olivier Galibert]

On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 09:20:54AM +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Sunday 05 March 2006 23:24, Émeric Maschino <emeric.maschino at jouy.inra.fr> 
> 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.
> 
> Incidentally such a large swap space will not do you any good in most usage 
> scenarios.

Three words: "suspend to disk".

  OG.