Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:38:27 -0400 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: Swap on loop device on tmpfs locks up machine |
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David Newall wrote: > Vegard Nossum wrote: >> It turns out that swap over loop device on tmpfs will lock up the >> machine. > > Doesn't tmpfs use otherwise-free virtual memory? I expect the machine > would lock up if you put swap (i.e. additional virtual memory) on such a > device.
To reinstate the paragraph from the O.P. you snipped: >> I'm not sure it's really a very good idea to do this in the first >> place, but should something give a warning or prevent a user from >> doing it?
I think you are both right, it is a bad thing to do, it does seem to lock up, and something should prevent a user from doing that. But it may be easier to fix the lockup than get the "prevent" right, there appears to be a loop there.
Just a simple questions to the O.P.: what were you thinking?!! Or was this a test just to see what would happen?
-- Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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