Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 27 Apr 2001 23:40:40 +0100 (BST) | From | Hugh Dickins <> | Subject | Re: 2.4 and 2GB swap partition limit |
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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.
Hugh
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