Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Apr 2003 22:04:10 +0100 (BST) | From | Hugh Dickins <> | Subject | Re: PATCH: allow percentile size of tmpfs (2.5.66 / 2.4.20-pre2) |
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On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Jörn Engel wrote: > 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
Don't blame Christoph for that, one of these days I'll face up to my responsibilities and make swapoff fail (probably get itself OOM-killed) instead of having everything else OOM-killed.
Hugh
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