Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 22 Jan 2006 22:23:43 -0700 | From | Michael Loftis <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] VM: I have a dream... |
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--On January 22, 2006 11:55:37 AM -0800 "Barry K. Nathan" <barryn@pobox.com> wrote:
> On 1/21/06, Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com> wrote: >> A long time ago, when i was a kid, I had dream. It went like this: > [snip] > > FWIW, Mac OS X is one step closer to your vision than the typical > Linux distribution: It has a directory for swapfiles -- /var/vm -- and > it creates new swapfiles there as needed. (It used to be that each > swapfile would be 80MB, but the iMac next to me just has a single 64MB > swapfile, so maybe Mac OS 10.4 does something different now.) /var/vm/swap* 64M swapfile0 64M swapfile1 128M swapfile2 256M swapfile3 512M swapfile4 512M swapfile5 1.5G total
However only the first 5 are in use. the 6th just represents the peak swap usage on this machine. This is on 10.4. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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