Messages in this thread | | | From | Bernd Eckenfels <> | Subject | Re: dynamic swapspace | Date | Sat, 02 Oct 1999 06:50:27 +0200 |
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In article <37F148F8.8620A092@kalifornia.com> you wrote: > nope. swap daemon locks pages on init, doesn't get swapped out so doesn't > block. the swap daemon shouldn't grow in size in the first place. should > something happen that consumes all available memory, the OOM handler exists > to free memory. reboot not required.
Why dont you simply use the usermode swap daemon which adds swap files as needed. Its a simple shell script checking the number of free pages and adds swap files as needed. No dead locks because of silly reserved atomic buffers.
Greetings Bernd
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