From: Bill Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] need more swap
Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 08:55:23 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1274057724.1657.80.camel@troll> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1274057308.1657.79.camel@troll>
ah, figured it out - had to be the whole disk, not a partition.
BillK
On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 08:48 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-17 0:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-17 0:48 [gentoo-user] need more swap Bill Kenworthy
2010-05-17 0:55 ` Bill Kenworthy [this message]
2010-05-17 5:56 ` Mick
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=1274057724.1657.80.camel@troll \
--to=billk@iinet.net.au \
--cc=gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox