From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265398AbUGSUZT (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jul 2004 16:25:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265418AbUGSUZT (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jul 2004 16:25:19 -0400 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([216.238.38.203]:55306 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265398AbUGSUZQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jul 2004 16:25:16 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: not-for-mail From: Bill Davidsen Newsgroups: mail.linux-kernel Subject: Re: VM Problems in 2.6.7 (Too active OOM Killer) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 16:27:49 -0400 Organization: TMR Associates, Inc Message-ID: References: <1089857602.15336.4120.camel@abyss.home><1089857602.15336.4120.camel@abyss.home> <20040715023300.GJ3411@holomorphy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: gatekeeper.tmr.com 1090268398 6517 192.168.12.100 (19 Jul 2004 20:19:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@tmr.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <20040715023300.GJ3411@holomorphy.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org William Lee Irwin III wrote: > There is no technical (or even practical) obstacle to implementing > in-core page relocation, only a social one: kernel politics. I would not > be surprised if hotplug memory patches already had code usable for this. Hopefully that will not prevent them from being put in the kernel :-( Question: if I create a ramdisk and put a swapfile on that, is it enough to solve the problem, or does the swap have to be on real disk? -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me