Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Nov 1997 19:41:45 -0700 (MST) | From | teunis <> | Subject | Re: Ideas for memory management hackers (2) |
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On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Matti Aarnio wrote:
> > From: Evan Jeffrey <ejeffrey@utrek.ml.org> > ... > > I think it would be better to create a "new" swapfile type for > 128 (or > > 512) MB swap areas, where the swap area signature (SWAP-SPACE ?) would be > > replaced by something like "NEW-SWAPXX" where XX is a short int indicating > > the number of bitmap blocks at the beginning of this swap area. This give > > us an ~8 TB theoretical limit, which is pretty big. > > Theorethically nice, but I am such a person who has a habit > of jumping back and forth between radically different kernel > versions (2.0.x and 2.1.x!), and therefore I do prefer methods > that don't require me do radical operations at system boot; > like "mkswap" at each boot on which even the "mkswap" should > recognize what the system understands at the moment...
BIG swap vs normal swap? have normal swap operate normally?
You'll never notice - unless you decide to create a >128M swapfile (i386) and then you'll discover 2.0.x can't handle such swap sizes..... [and it will (hopefully?) be ignored...]
G'day, eh? :) - Teunis
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