Solaris 8 x86 Maximum SWAP Size

[jdoherty]

I have been told the maximum swap size Solaris 8 x86 can address is 2GB per HDD installed. This is, of course, pertaining only to 32 bit processors. The reason I ask is I have Solaris 8 x86 installed on a PC which has 4GB RAM installed. I have been doubling the RAM when configuring the swap partition. Is 8000MB allocated for swap a waste of disk space? Will the OS only address 2GB?

Thanks in advance for any replies I might receive.

 

[Annihilannic]

Personally I would only add 2GB of swap space, however there is a small risk that you would not get a complete crash dump if the system panics. With the amount of memory in modern systems the system should rarely, if ever, be swapping to disk.

To add more than 2GB you can simply add multiple swap partitions or files of 2GB each.

Annihilannic.