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=?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> writes:

>On Wed, 2 April 2003 19:33:05 +0200, Christoph Rohland wrote:
>> 
>> No, that's why I said you would need hooks into swapon and
>> swapoff. Then it would adjust on the fly. Else it's useless from the
>> usability point of view. With these hooks it's easy to do.

>Can you show me the easy part with this setup?
>256MB RAM
>512MB swap
>50% tmpfs (384MB)
>fill tmpfs completely
>swapoff -a

# swapoff -a
swapoff: device is busy

# umount /tmpfs
# swapoff -a
#

... in an ideal world, of course.

	Regards
		Henning



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