* James D. Parra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01-11-07 19:15]:
 [...] 
> Okay, this is interesting.
> 
> #dd if=/dev/zero of=/extra-swap bs=2GB count=1K
> dd: memory exhausted
> 
> # free
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:       1003424     179012     824412          0          4      93028
> -/+ buffers/cache:      85980     917444
> Swap:       811240       3176     808064
> <snip>
> 
> What happened? (running Suse 10.0)

#dd if=/dev/zero of=/extra-swap bs=2GB count=1K
                                ^^^^^^
two gigabyte block size times 1K ????
                                
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