From: Andrew Walrond <andrew@walrond.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Guy <bugzilla@watkins-home.com>, 'Mike Hardy' <mhardy@h3c.com>,
'Jesper Juhl' <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>,
linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: No swap can be dangerous (was Re: swap on RAID (was Re: swp - Re: ext3 journal on software raid))
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 09:28:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200501070928.13307.andrew@walrond.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200501062316.j06NFP900855@www.watkins-home.com>
On Thursday 06 January 2005 23:15, Guy wrote:
> If I MUST/SHOULD have swap space....
> Maybe I will create a RAM disk and use it for swap! :) :) :)
Well, indeed, I had the same thought. As long as you could guarantee that the
ram was of the highmem/non-dmaable type...
But we're getting ahead of ourselves. I think we need an authoritive answer to
the original premise. Perhaps Alan (cc-ed) might spare us a moment?
Did I dream this up, or is it correct?
"I think the gist was this: the kernel can sometimes needs to move bits of
memory in order to free up dma-able ram, or lowmem. If I recall correctly,
the kernel can only do this move via swap, even if there is stacks of free
(non-dmaable or highmem) memory."
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-07 9:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 88+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-30 0:31 PROBLEM: Kernel 2.6.10 crashing repeatedly and hard Georg C. F. Greve
2004-12-30 16:23 ` Georg C. F. Greve
2004-12-30 17:39 ` Peter T. Breuer
2004-12-30 17:53 ` Sandro Dentella
2004-12-30 18:31 ` Peter T. Breuer
2004-12-30 19:50 ` Michael Tokarev
2004-12-30 21:39 ` Peter T. Breuer
2005-01-02 19:42 ` ext3 journal on software raid (was Re: PROBLEM: Kernel 2.6.10 crashing repeatedly and hard) Andy Smith
2005-01-02 20:18 ` Peter T. Breuer
2005-01-03 0:30 ` Andy Smith
2005-01-03 6:41 ` Neil Brown
2005-01-03 8:37 ` Peter T. Breuer
2005-01-03 8:03 ` Peter T. Breuer
2005-01-03 8:58 ` Guy
2005-01-03 10:18 ` Partiy error detection - was " Brad Campbell
2005-01-03 12:11 ` Michael Tokarev
2005-01-03 14:23 ` Peter T. Breuer
2005-01-03 18:30 ` maarten
2005-01-03 21:36 ` Michael Tokarev
2005-01-05 5:50 ` Debian Sarge mdadm raid 10 assembling at boot problem Roger Ellison
2005-01-05 13:41 ` Michael Tokarev
2005-01-05 13:57 ` [help] [I2O] Adaptec 2400A on FC3 Angelo Piraino
2005-01-05 19:15 ` Debian Sarge mdadm raid 10 assembling at boot problem Roger Ellison
2005-01-05 9:56 ` ext3 journal on software raid (was Re: PROBLEM: Kernel 2.6.10 crashing repeatedly and hard) Andy Smith
2005-01-05 10:44 ` Alvin Oga
2005-01-05 10:56 ` Brad Campbell
2005-01-05 11:39 ` Alvin Oga
2005-01-05 12:02 ` Brad Campbell
2005-01-05 13:23 ` Alvin Oga
2005-01-05 13:33 ` Brad Campbell
2005-01-05 14:44 ` parts -- " Alvin Oga
2005-01-19 4:46 ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2005-01-19 5:05 ` Alvin Oga
2005-01-19 5:49 ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2005-01-19 7:08 ` Alvin Oga
2005-01-05 13:36 ` Swap should be mirrored or not? (was Re: ext3 journal on software raid) Andy Smith
2005-01-05 14:12 ` ext3 journal on software raid (was Re: PROBLEM: Kernel 2.6.10 crashing repeatedly and hard) Erik Mouw
2005-01-05 14:37 ` Michael Tokarev
2005-01-05 14:55 ` errors " Alvin Oga
2005-01-05 17:11 ` Erik Mouw
2005-01-06 5:41 ` Brad Campbell
2005-01-05 15:17 ` Guy
2005-01-05 15:33 ` Alvin Oga
2005-01-05 16:22 ` Michael Tokarev
2005-01-05 17:23 ` Peter T. Breuer
2005-01-05 16:23 ` Andy Smith
2005-01-05 16:30 ` Andy Smith
2005-01-05 17:04 ` swp - " Alvin Oga
2005-01-05 17:26 ` Andy Smith
2005-01-05 18:32 ` Alvin Oga
2005-01-05 22:35 ` Andy Smith
2005-01-06 0:57 ` Guy
2005-01-06 1:28 ` Mike Hardy
2005-01-06 3:32 ` Guy
2005-01-06 4:49 ` Mike Hardy
2005-01-09 21:07 ` Mark Hahn
2005-01-06 5:04 ` Alvin Oga
2005-01-06 6:18 ` Guy
2005-01-06 6:31 ` Alvin Oga
2005-01-06 9:38 ` swap on RAID (was Re: swp - Re: ext3 journal on software raid) Andy Smith
2005-01-06 17:46 ` Mike Hardy
2005-01-06 22:08 ` No swap can be dangerous (was Re: swap on RAID (was Re: swp - Re: ext3 journal on software raid)) Andrew Walrond
2005-01-06 22:34 ` Jesper Juhl
2005-01-06 22:57 ` Mike Hardy
2005-01-06 23:15 ` Guy
2005-01-07 9:28 ` Andrew Walrond [this message]
2005-02-28 20:07 ` Guy
2005-01-07 1:31 ` confused Re: swap on RAID (was Re: swp - Re: ext3 journal on software raid) Alvin Oga
2005-01-07 2:28 ` Andy Smith
2005-01-07 13:04 ` Alvin Oga
2005-01-09 21:21 ` swp - Re: ext3 journal on software raid (was Re: PROBLEM: Kernel 2.6.10 crashing repeatedly and hard) Mark Hahn
2005-01-09 22:20 ` Alvin Oga
2005-01-06 5:01 ` Alvin Oga
2005-01-05 17:07 ` Guy
2005-01-05 17:21 ` Alvin Oga
2005-01-05 17:32 ` Guy
2005-01-05 18:37 ` Alvin Oga
2005-01-05 17:34 ` ECC: RE: ext3 blah blah blah Gordon Henderson
2005-01-05 18:33 ` Alvin Oga
2005-01-05 17:26 ` ext3 journal on software raid (was Re: PROBLEM: Kernel 2.6.10 crashing repeatedly and hard) David Greaves
2005-01-05 18:16 ` Peter T. Breuer
2005-01-05 18:28 ` Guy
2005-01-05 18:26 ` Guy
2005-01-05 15:48 ` Peter T. Breuer
[not found] ` <41D45C1F.5030307-XAri/EZa3C4vJsYlp49lxw@public.gmane.org>
2004-12-30 20:54 ` PROBLEM: Kernel 2.6.10 crashing repeatedly and hard berk walker
2005-01-01 13:39 ` Helge Hafting
2005-01-07 6:21 ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2005-01-07 9:39 ` Andy Smith
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