From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.11] helo=sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Aqi3r-0004dN-7S for user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 10 Feb 2004 16:17:03 -0800 Received: from [12.177.129.25] (helo=ccure.user-mode-linux.org) by sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.30) id 1Aqi3c-0001YV-JK for user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 10 Feb 2004 16:16:48 -0800 Message-Id: <200402110043.i1B0hOip004189@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> Subject: Re: [uml-devel] Swapping directly to host swap area? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 05 Feb 2004 17:59:03 +0100." <200402051759.03917.blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it> References: <200401280439.i0S4dMZw005517@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> <200402051759.03917.blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Jeff Dike Sender: user-mode-linux-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: user-mode-linux-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: The user-mode Linux development list List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 19:43:24 -0500 To: BlaisorBlade Cc: William Stearns , user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it said: > About this, my idea was that using swap both on the host and on the > guests is not very useful: My suggestions were aimed at making the host less likely to swap. There are various pathological things which happen when both UML and the host are swapping. Having said that, the host needs to be able to swap UMLs if the memory situation is so bad that there is no other choice. > - because the host already sees which pages are accessed and which not > (an access inside UML is an access inside the host); the only > difference is that the host can swap even the guest kernel, while UML > not; UML might have a better idea than the host, though. Jeff ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel