Messages in this thread | | | From | Ryan Cumming <> | Subject | Re: vm-pageout-throttling.patch: hanging in throttle_vm_writeout/blk_congestion_wait | Date | Mon, 15 Nov 2004 14:51:19 -0800 |
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On Monday 15 November 2004 14:37, Sami Farin wrote: > I know it's a "nicer" idea to use some partition for the swap > instead of a file on reiserfs, but I created too small swap partitions > originally and I can't(/bother?) resize the other partitions. > And sometimes some memhog forces me to add even more swap.
He's not suggesting you use a swap partition; he's suggesting you swapon the file directly without using the loopback device, ie:
swapon /path/to/file/on/reiserfs
This allows the kernel to perform certain optimizations and removes the overhead of the loopback device.
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