From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
To: Silviu Marin-Caea <silviu@genesys.ro>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
Subject: Re: dynamic allocation of swap disk space
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 13:28:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040510132849.435b6b26.pj@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <409F57F1.2060803@genesys.ro>
> How about dynamically allocating up to a certain limit.
Given that disk space is essentially "free", how does that
differ from simply allocating swap files up to the desired
limit size?
And having a bigger swap space wouldn't help your thrashing
problem. You're not thrashing (unusable system, mucho disk
activity) for lack of swap space. You're thrashing because
you are trying to use the swap space you already have for
active pages.
--
I won't rest till it's the best ...
Programmer, Linux Scalability
Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> 1.650.933.1373
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-10 20:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-10 8:50 Silviu Marin-Caea
2004-05-10 10:03 ` John Bradford
2004-05-10 10:22 ` Silviu Marin-Caea
2004-05-10 20:28 ` Paul Jackson [this message]
[not found] <fa.n6pggn5.84en31@ifi.uio.no>
2004-05-11 15:22 ` Ray Bryant
2004-05-11 15:52 ` John Bradford
2004-05-11 15:54 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-05-11 16:39 ` John Bradford
2004-05-11 16:28 ` Ray Bryant
2004-05-12 6:56 ` Silviu Marin-Caea
2004-05-11 16:00 ` Oliver Neukum
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