Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Apr 2001 19:40:38 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: 2.4 and 2GB swap partition limit |
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On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, LA Walsh wrote: > > > > > An interesting option (though with less-than-stellar performance > > > characteristics) would be a dynamically expanding swapfile. If you're > > > going to be hit with swap penalties, it may be useful to not have to > > > pre-reserve something you only hit once in a great while. > > > > This makes amazingly little sense since you'd still need to > > pre-reserve the disk space the swapfile grows into. > > It makes roughly the same sense as over-committing memory. > Both are useful, both are unreliable.
True, agreed.
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