From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
To: Ray Bryant <raybry@sgi.com>
Cc: Silviu Marin-Caea <silviu@genesys.ro>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: dynamic allocation of swap disk space
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 18:00:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200405111800.59640.oliver@neukum.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40A0EFC0.1040609@sgi.com>
> thrash without filling up swap space. It is true that systems can thrash AND
> fill up swap space, but it is not always so.
However the system will also thrash if you have inactive dirty pages without
file backing taking up to much main memory. Albeit it is more a theoretical
possibilty.
Regards
Oliver
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-11 16:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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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 [this message]
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
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