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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
> 
> 
> 
> 




  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

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