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SubjectRe: dynamic swapspace
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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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