From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Loftis Subject: Re: [RFC] VM: I have a dream... Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 22:23:43 -0700 Message-ID: References: <200601212108.41269.a1426z@gawab.com> <986ed62e0601221155x6a57e353vf14db02cc219c09@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from free.wgops.com ([69.51.116.66]:32271 "EHLO shell.wgops.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932411AbWAWFX7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jan 2006 00:23:59 -0500 To: "Barry K. Nathan" , Al Boldi In-Reply-To: <986ed62e0601221155x6a57e353vf14db02cc219c09@mail.gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org --On January 22, 2006 11:55:37 AM -0800 "Barry K. Nathan" wrote: > On 1/21/06, Al Boldi wrote: >> A long time ago, when i was a kid, I had dream. It went like this: > [snip] > > FWIW, Mac OS X is one step closer to your vision than the typical > Linux distribution: It has a directory for swapfiles -- /var/vm -- and > it creates new swapfiles there as needed. (It used to be that each > swapfile would be 80MB, but the iMac next to me just has a single 64MB > swapfile, so maybe Mac OS 10.4 does something different now.) /var/vm/swap* 64M swapfile0 64M swapfile1 128M swapfile2 256M swapfile3 512M swapfile4 512M swapfile5 1.5G total However only the first 5 are in use. the 6th just represents the peak swap usage on this machine. This is on 10.4.