On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Sergey Korzhevsky wrote: > Hi. > > Is it possible to create swapfile over 2G on 64bit system?. I think yes, > but i've got the following "answer": > > ls -la > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4294967296 Sep 17 12:51 swap3 > > mkswap /share/share/swap3 > mkswap: error: swap area needs to be at least 40kB > Usage: mkswap [-c] [-v0|-v1] [-pPAGESZ] /dev/name [blocks]
That looks like a software error, but AFAICR 2Gb is the defined limit, and I don't recall any reference to 32/64 bit. Previously, the limit was 128 Mbyte and that was NOT architecture-specific. > > > It is on SLES7(64b, beta). 'Mkswap' from util-linux-2.11b-52 > > > ps: > uname -a > Linux zlinux 2.4.21-4 #2 SMP Tue Sep 2 11:42:25 EEST 2003 s390x unknown > > ldd /sbin/mkswap > libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x0000010000033000) > /lib/ld64.so.1 => /lib/ld64.so.1 (0x0000010000000000) > > So, what's wrong? > > WBR, Sergey > -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb Copyright John Summerfield. Reproduction prohibited.
