total configured swap pages exceeds maximum recommended amount

[David Wolfskill]

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consern -- dhw]
On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 12:23:34AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> ...
> The reason this box has 32GB swap (4x more than existing RAM) has to do
> with planning ahead.  The system can support up to 32GB RAM, but does
> not have all the DIMM slots populated at this time.  Swap on this
> machine is a physical partition on its main disk, thus "shrinking swap"
> is not not possible without a full format/reinstall.
> .....

Actually, now that you have sized the partitions. you could use "gpart
resize" to shrink the (effective) swap partition, leaving a "hole" (of
unused diske space) -- for now.

Later, you could use "gpart resize" again to reclaim (some of) the
unused space for your swap partition, should you want to do so.

Peace,
david
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