[plug] 2GB swap limit

Cameron Patrick cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au
Thu Aug 19 09:42:45 WST 2004


William Kenworthy wrote:

> The bad news is most apps dont seem to handle unlimited swap.  i.e., GD
> dies somewhere about 5g memory usage when given access to 1g ram, 2x1g
> swaps and 2x2g swap files.

Is that on a 32-bit machine?  I'm surprised it makes it to 5gb, isn't
there a 3gb limit on the address space of each process?

Cameron.




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