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From: Bill Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au>
To: Gentoo Users <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-user] need more swap
Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 00:49:01
Message-Id: 1274057308.1657.79.camel@troll
1 I have a one-off number crunching job that needs a large amount of swap.
2 It is apparently possible to have up to 16TB of swap with an AMD opteron
3 but I cant find out how - anyone here done this?
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5 I have a 125GB scssi disk I would like as one large swap but after setup
6 the kernel can only see 2G (normal i386 is up to 32 2G partitions - I
7 found that 5G ram and 12G swap wasnt enough so I now want more! :)
8
9 BillK

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Re: [gentoo-user] need more swap Bill Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au>