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 > > > >
