From: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Support for > 2GB swap partitions?
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 19:34:38 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0501091933090.29064@p500> (raw)
I remember reading in the past that > 2GB swap partitions were supported
in Linux as of recent util-linux packages with a 2.6 kernel or am I wrong?
# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 251.0 GB, 251000193024 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30515 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 16 128488+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 17 526 4096575 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda3 527 30515 240886642+ 83 Linux
# top
top - 19:33:43 up 3:26, 1 user, load average: 1.33, 2.63, 1.66
Tasks: 166 total, 1 running, 165 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 9.1% us, 3.4% sy, 0.0% ni, 83.5% id, 1.8% wa, 0.1% hi, 2.2% si
Mem: 2075192k total, 2062540k used, 12652k free, 64k buffers
Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 1608272k cached
Only recognizes 2GB of 4GB?
next reply other threads:[~2005-01-10 0:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-10 0:34 Justin Piszcz [this message]
2005-01-10 0:47 ` Support for > 2GB swap partitions? Grzegorz Kulewski
2005-01-10 10:09 ` Justin Piszcz
2005-01-10 14:59 ` Nikola Ciprich
2005-01-10 2:20 ` Andries Brouwer
2005-01-10 10:10 ` Justin Piszcz
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