Messages in this thread | | | From | Darren Reed <> | Subject | Re: Memory Management - BSD vs Linux | Date | Mon, 11 Aug 1997 20:38:23 +1000 (EST) |
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In some mail I received from Theodore Y. Ts'o, sie wrote > > [3] Can any of these systems have > a) swap files rather than partitions > b) dynamically growing swap space? > As far as I can make out, the answeris no! > > Linux can swap to files (multiple files if necessary), and there is a > user-mode daemon that can allow you to dyanmically grow swap space (by > allocating a new file).
NetBSD has swapfiles and does not require a daemon to be running for more to be added. NetBSD has also since moved on from just swap(2) to having swapctl(2) which supports things like swap files/partitions with different priorities and a replacement program for swapon - swapctl(8).
Darren
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