From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Diego Calleja Subject: Re: [RFC] VM: I have a dream... Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 16:26:24 +0100 Message-ID: <20060123162624.5c5a1b94.diegocg@gmail.com> References: <200601212108.41269.a1426z@gawab.com> <986ed62e0601221155x6a57e353vf14db02cc219c09@mail.gmail.com> <728201270601230705k25e6890ejd716dbfc393208b8@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: mloftis@wgops.com, barryn@pobox.com, a1426z@gawab.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from uproxy.gmail.com ([66.249.92.198]:21927 "EHLO uproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751476AbWAWP0w convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:26:52 -0500 Received: by uproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id s2so803146uge for ; Mon, 23 Jan 2006 07:26:50 -0800 (PST) To: Ram Gupta In-Reply-To: <728201270601230705k25e6890ejd716dbfc393208b8@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org El Mon, 23 Jan 2006 09:05:41 -0600, Ram Gupta escribi=F3: > Linux also supports multiple swap files . But these are more There're in fact a "dynamic swap" tool which apparently does what mac os x do: http://dynswapd.sourceforge.net/ However, I doubt the approach is really useful. If you need that much swap space, you're going well beyond the capabilities of the machine. In fact, I bet that most of the cases of machines needing too much memory will be because of bugs in the programs and OOM'ing would be a better solution. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel= " in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html