From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Description of problem: Ananconda has a 2GB swap partition limit when using the "part swap -recommended" option in a ks.cfg kickstart file Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anaconda for rhel3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a kickstart file with the line "part swap --recommended" 2. Kickstart the system 3. Maximum swap partition size will be 2GB, even if it should be more Actual Results: Swap partition was 2GB on a systems with 4GB and 8GB physical ram in them Expected Results: Swap partition should have been two time the physical ram size Additional info:
This is intentional. Growing the swap partition beyond 2 GB in the general case ends up leading to less of a performance improvement than you might otherwise expect.