From: Ryan Cumming <ryan@spitfire.gotdns.org>
To: Sami Farin <7atbggg02@sneakemail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: vm-pageout-throttling.patch: hanging in throttle_vm_writeout/blk_congestion_wait
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 14:51:19 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200411151451.21671.ryan@spitfire.gotdns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041115223709.GD6654@m.safari.iki.fi>
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On Monday 15 November 2004 14:37, Sami Farin wrote:
> I know it's a "nicer" idea to use some partition for the swap
> instead of a file on reiserfs, but I created too small swap partitions
> originally and I can't(/bother?) resize the other partitions.
> And sometimes some memhog forces me to add even more swap.
He's not suggesting you use a swap partition; he's suggesting you swapon the
file directly without using the loopback device, ie:
swapon /path/to/file/on/reiserfs
This allows the kernel to perform certain optimizations and removes the
overhead of the loopback device.
-Ryan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-15 22:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-15 1:26 vm-pageout-throttling.patch: hanging in throttle_vm_writeout/blk_congestion_wait Sami Farin
2004-11-15 21:56 ` Hugh Dickins
2004-11-15 22:37 ` Sami Farin
2004-11-15 22:51 ` Ryan Cumming [this message]
2004-11-15 23:17 ` Sami Farin
2004-11-15 23:56 ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-16 16:11 ` Hans Reiser
2004-11-17 4:14 ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-17 11:38 ` Jari Ruusu
[not found] <fa.hmuv5gp.g5krg5@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.c8odfd2.1a3mtig@ifi.uio.no>
2004-11-17 23:07 ` Bodo Eggert
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