Re: [gentoo-user] need more swap

2010-05-16 Thread Mick
On Monday 17 May 2010 01:55:23 Bill Kenworthy wrote: > ah, figured it out - had to be the whole disk, not a partition. As far as I know you can define a partition, or even a file as swap space. You'll need to set a swap fs on them first before you can use them and then it is a matter of swapon

Re: [gentoo-user] need more swap

2010-05-16 Thread Bill Kenworthy
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 o

[gentoo-user] need more swap

2010-05-16 Thread Bill Kenworthy
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 (no