Swap partition size

[Oliver Tennert <tennert@science-computing.de>]

Hello,

it might prove to be a very stupid question, nevertheless I dare ask it:

I grew up in the opinion that Linux has a 2 GB limit on swap partitions.
This seems to have been dropped, though I NEVER have seen any hint or
documentation of it:

root@test001 root > swapon -s
Filename        Type    Size Used     Priority
/dev/sdb1                       partition 35840972      7370936 -3
root@test001 root > free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       1031032    1007696      23336          0      10616     662312
-/+ buffers/cache:     334768     696264
Swap:     35840972    7370936   28470036
root@test001 root > uname -a
Linux test001 2.4.18-14 #1 Wed Sep 4 12:13:11 EDT 2002 i686 athlon i386
GNU/Linux

Can any one of you tell me when this limit has dropped off the 2.4 kernel?
I deem it worth to be mentioned in a way!

Best regards

Oliver

P.S.: What you see is a 35G swap partition used for a 8G file written to a
tmpfs file system.


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