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From: Joseph Fannin <jhf@rivenstone.net>
To: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.sf.net
Subject: Re: [XEN] using shmfs for swapspace
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 13:31:34 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050103183133.GA19081@samarkand.rivenstone.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050102162652.GA12268@lkcl.net>

On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 04:26:52PM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
[...] 
> this is presumed to be infinitely better than forcing the swapspace to
> be always on disk, especially with the guests only being allocated
> 32mbyte of physical RAM.

    I'd be interested in knowing how a tmpfs that's gone far into swap
performs compared to a more normal on-disk fs.  I don't know if anyone
has ever looked into it.  Is it comparable, or is tmpfs's ability to
swap more a last-resort escape hatch?

    This is the part where I would add something valuable to this
conversation, if I were going to do that. (But no.)
-- 
Joseph Fannin
jhf@rivenstone.net  

  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-03 18:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-02 16:26 [XEN] using shmfs for swapspace Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2005-01-03 18:31 ` Joseph Fannin [this message]
2005-01-03 20:53   ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2005-01-03 21:06     ` Alan Cox
2005-01-04  3:04       ` [Xen-devel] " Mark Williamson
2005-01-04 14:05         ` Rik van Riel
2005-01-06 11:38           ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2005-01-05  0:11         ` Arnd Bergmann
2005-01-21 21:37           ` Rik van Riel
2005-01-26 20:56             ` Mark Williamson
2005-01-27 10:33               ` Nuutti Kotivuori
2005-01-03 21:07     ` Adam Heath
2005-01-04  9:30       ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2005-01-04 14:06         ` Rik van Riel

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