Messages in this thread | | | From | (Nick Holloway) | Subject | Re: OOM in 2.2.14 | Date | 8 Jul 2000 13:00:29 +0100 |
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dbronaugh@linuxhelp.bc.ca (David Bronaugh) writes: > There should be a userland daemon to track free memory and, if it falls > below a critical level, add more swap.
This suggestion comes up about once a year, and I have some code that implements such as "swap daemon". I must admit it is nearly two years since the last mention.
Have a look for "swapd" available from
http://www.alfie.demon.co.uk/download/
The original code was written in 1993, and released in 1994 (on the next discussion). Minor tweaks have happened, but nothing major. I have never used it. A few have.
If this really were the right approach, it would have become more widely adopted, with a little more kernel support.
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