From: "J . A . Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
To: Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl>
Cc: Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org>,
Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl>,
Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>,
Goswin Brederlow <goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de>,
William T Wilson <fluffy@snurgle.org>,
Matt_Domsch@Dell.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4 and 2GB swap partition limit
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 16:28:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010428162803.C1062@werewolf.able.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010428093722.A17218@animx.eu.org> <200104281411.QAA04406@cave.bitwizard.nl>
In-Reply-To: <200104281411.QAA04406@cave.bitwizard.nl>; from R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl on Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 16:11:47 +0200
On 04.28 Rogier Wolff wrote:
>
> I've ALWAYS said that it's a rule-of-thumb. This means that if you
> have a good argument to do it differently, you should surely do so!
>
I'm not so sure it's only a 'rule of thumb'. Do not know the state of
paging in just released 2.4.4, but in previuos kernel, a page that was
paged-out, reserves its place in swap even if it is paged-in again, so
once you have paged-out all your ram at least once, you can't get any
more memory, even if swap is 'empty'.
Now that macs leave out that kind of swap (MacOS classic), linux takes it.
At least macos does not allow you to set vm to less than your physical mem.
--
J.A. Magallon # Let the source
mailto:jamagallon@able.es # be with you, Luke...
Linux werewolf 2.4.4 #1 SMP Sat Apr 28 11:45:02 CEST 2001 i686
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-28 14:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-02 21:23 2.4 and 2GB swap partition limit Matt_Domsch
2001-03-02 23:52 ` Kenneth Johansson
2001-03-03 6:14 ` William T Wilson
2001-03-03 11:14 ` Rogier Wolff
2001-03-08 13:05 ` Goswin Brederlow
2001-04-27 10:51 ` Xavier Bestel
2001-04-27 11:13 ` Rogier Wolff
2001-04-27 20:52 ` LA Walsh
2001-04-27 21:44 ` Rik van Riel
2001-04-27 22:06 ` Thomas Dodd
2001-04-27 22:40 ` Hugh Dickins
2001-04-27 22:40 ` Rik van Riel
2001-04-29 15:12 ` Ingo Oeser
2001-04-27 22:44 ` LA Walsh
2001-04-28 7:47 ` Rogier Wolff
2001-04-27 22:22 ` Wakko Warner
2001-04-28 13:17 ` Rogier Wolff
2001-04-28 13:37 ` Wakko Warner
2001-04-28 14:11 ` Rogier Wolff
2001-04-28 14:28 ` J . A . Magallon [this message]
2001-04-30 18:12 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-01 13:00 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-05-01 16:14 ` Rogier Wolff
2001-05-01 16:35 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-05-02 10:54 ` Rogier Wolff
2001-05-02 11:04 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-05-02 12:49 ` Hugh Dickins
2001-05-02 13:43 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-05-02 0:28 ` Rik van Riel
2001-05-02 0:34 ` David S. Miller
2001-05-02 0:43 ` Rik van Riel
2001-05-02 1:14 ` Roger Larsson
2001-05-02 1:30 ` Rik van Riel
2001-05-01 13:39 ` Christoph Rohland
2001-05-01 23:25 ` Rik van Riel
2001-04-28 18:04 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-04-28 21:23 ` Rogier Wolff
2001-04-29 1:43 ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-04-29 9:17 ` Kenneth Johansson
2001-04-28 18:21 ` David Lang
2001-04-28 21:25 ` Rogier Wolff
2001-04-30 18:14 ` Alan Cox
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-03-04 22:04 Matt_Domsch
2001-03-05 8:58 ` Christoph Rohland
2001-03-05 14:30 ` Rik van Riel
2001-03-05 14:36 ` Rik van Riel
2001-03-05 14:52 ` Matti Aarnio
2001-03-05 13:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-03-05 16:53 Andries.Brouwer
2001-04-30 18:45 Torrey Hoffman
2001-04-30 19:04 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-04-30 19:07 ` David S. Miller
2001-04-30 19:14 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-04-30 21:04 ` Andreas Ferber
2001-05-02 14:31 ` Andi Kleen
2001-05-02 22:17 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-05-04 8:16 ` Andi Kleen
2001-05-03 14:04 Ishikawa
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