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On Thursday 26 January 2006 00:27, Nix wrote: > On 23 Jan 2006, Diego Calleja wrote: > > El Mon, 23 Jan 2006 09:05:41 -0600, > > Ram Gupta <ram.gupta5@gmail.com> escribió: > > > >> Linux also supports multiple swap files . But these are more > > > > There're in fact a "dynamic swap" tool which apparently > > does what mac os x do: http://dynswapd.sourceforge.net/ > > > > However, I doubt the approach is really useful. If you need that much > > swap space, you're going well beyond the capabilities of the machine. > > Well, to some extent it depends on your access patterns. The backup > program I use (`dar') is an enormous memory hog: it happily eats 5Gb on > my main fileserver (an UltraSPARC, so compiling it 64-bit does away with > address space sizing problems). That machine has only 512Mb RAM, so > you'd expect the thing would be swapping to death; but the backup > program's locality of reference is sufficiently good that it doesn't > swap much at all (and that in one tight lump at the end). Totally insane proggie. -- vda - 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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