Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Memory Management - BSD vs Linux | Date | Mon, 11 Aug 1997 14:29:58 -0400 | From | Noel Maddy <> |
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On 11 Aug 1997, Darren Reed wrote: > 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).
Do you mean that NetBSD monitors the available swap space and automatically adds more without a daemon, or just that more swap space can be added via swapctl without a daemon running? Linux does the latter without a daemon--the daemon Ted mentioned does the former. -- "Some Internet functionality may require Internet access..." - Microsoft Office 97 requirements Noel Maddy <nmaddy1@biostat.hfh.edu>
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