Ideal Swap Partition Size

[Roberto Ragusa]

Tim wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 10:28 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote:
>> Note that a Linux swap _partition_ is limited to 2GB.
> 
> If this is true, then it'd be a good idea if the disk partitioner that
> Anaconda uses didn't let you make bigger partitions than that, because
> it does.

I'd be surprised if the limit is still at 2GB per partition nowadays,
on machines with 4GB or more in physical RAM and disks which are
switching the way they are measured from GB to TB.

In addition, see my laptop...

# cat /proc/swaps
Filename                                Type            Size    Used    Priority
/dev/sda7                               partition       4891280 676     -1

...and then this

http://www.redhat.com/magazine/017mar06/departments/tips_tricks/

(limit removed since RHEL3, which is reeeeeally old)

Best regards.

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