2GB swap partition limit?

[Emeric Maschino]

Hello,

I'm pretty sure that anaconda displayed 4GB for the swap when it created
the partitions. But it seems it was only a graphical artifact, since
cat /proc/swaps, cat /proc/meminfo and lvdisplay all report a 2GB swap
space, as well as top, free and the gnome-system-monitor. Thus, if
anaconda doesn't create swap partition bigger than 2GB, everything seems
to be fine.

	Émeric


Le jeudi 09 mars 2006 à 16:09 -0500, Peter Jones a écrit :
> 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
>