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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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  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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