From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ODoVv-0005Wj-UH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 17 May 2010 00:49:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 40256E07E6; Mon, 17 May 2010 00:48:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out3.iinet.net.au (outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out3.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.148]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06919E07E6 for ; Mon, 17 May 2010 00:48:35 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEAKYu8Et8qXQB/2dsb2JhbACeBHG5S4UQBIM+ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.53,243,1272816000"; d="scan'208";a="604535459" Received: from unknown (HELO moriah.localdomain) ([124.169.116.1]) by outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out3.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 17 May 2010 08:48:33 +0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5457E1C777FF for ; Mon, 17 May 2010 08:48:33 +0800 (WST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at localdomain Received: from moriah.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (moriah.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id rkHz6kiTQjzb for ; Mon, 17 May 2010 08:48:30 +0800 (WST) Received: from [192.168.48.1] (troll [192.168.48.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 505881BE0B7B for ; Mon, 17 May 2010 08:48:30 +0800 (WST) Subject: [gentoo-user] need more swap From: Bill Kenworthy To: Gentoo Users Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 08:48:28 +0800 Message-Id: <1274057308.1657.79.camel@troll> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0f018554-8c44-47bc-b80b-97a94be435fd X-Archives-Hash: 4ac01de277e3e9ee86a57ac3f16cb998 I have a one-off number crunching job that needs a large amount of swap. It is apparently possible to have up to 16TB of swap with an AMD opteron but I cant find out how - anyone here done this? I have a 125GB scssi disk I would like as one large swap but after setup the kernel can only see 2G (normal i386 is up to 32 2G partitions - I found that 5G ram and 12G swap wasnt enough so I now want more! :) BillK