Re: Alpha SWAP space limits???

Maurice W. Hilarius (harddata@bigfoot.com)
Wed, 26 Nov 1997 08:07:34 -0700

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With regards to your message at 08:30 AM 11-26-97 +0100, Harald Koenig.
Where you stated:
>On Nov 25, Maurice W. Hilarius wrote:
>
>> Sorry Stephen, but I've seen the 500MB swap running more than once, and it
>> is usable.
>>
>> 512MB is the limit.
>
>correct, because both the size of the bitmap for swap area pages is doubled
>and the size of each page is doubled too. so this gives
>
> 8k bitmap * 8 bits/byte * 8k pages = 512M
>
>
Makes sense, Harald. Thanks for pointing that out. I was missing the reason.

Cheers,

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