<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Ed L. Cashin <<a href="mailto:ecashin@noserose.net">ecashin@noserose.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
2008/6/28 Jim Kinney <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
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<div class="Ih2E3d">> It's pretty easy to add more swap space. Anthing over 2G is pretty useless<br>
> though.<br>
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</div>I think there was a time when the kernel could not use more<br>
than 2 GB from a swap partition, but unless there has been<br>
a regression, I would expect today's kernels to use large swap<br>
areas without trouble.</blockquote><div><br>It is not a problem for the kernel to TB's of swap. It simply becomes useless due to access speeds after about 2GB. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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If there's a limit, though, I'd like to know about it. So any<br>
references where I could read about it would be appreciated.<br>
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