swap: which is the maximum size allowed?

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 02:24 -0500, Tony Clayton wrote:
> On Sunday 28 January 2007 15:07, Eriberto wrote:
> > maximum swap size
> This is what I found on the net.
> 
> x86		            2 Gigabytes

this is not correct; you can go a LOT higher than that.... I know 128Gb
works, I've not tried more (but then again, if you need that much you
have some really serious problem in the first place)