Swap space

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Mon Dec 14 17:52:52 UTC 2009


On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 08:04:18PM -0500, William Muriithi wrote:
> 2 GB is the maximum Linux kernel will ever use. Anything above that
> will never be used however loaded the system is

Not true at all.  Maybe years ago it was, but certainly not anymore.
You need a PAE enabled kernel or a 64bit kernel to do it, but those are
both pretty common these days.

> I will google and see if I can find the article that had above info later

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