what is the difference between swap partition and swap

[Jonas Norlander]

2009/3/12 Derek Broughton <derek at pointerstop.ca>:
> Brian Norman Wootton wrote:
>
>> There used to be a maximum partition size for swap of 2 GB, I don't know
>> if this still applies.
>
> Never in my memory (I started using at least 3GB when I bought my Dell
> laptop at least 5 years ago, because I was using swap for tmpfs).
> --
> derek
>

Well there are a limit of 4 Gb (if you use 32 bit architectures) for
your virtual memory and that includes RAM, Swap, Graphics memory and
other devices. Although there are work around for access more. Would
be interesting to see what would happen if you allocated more then 4
Gb in 32 bit machine with 1 Gb RAM and big enough swap?

/ Jonas