Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 29 Apr 2001 17:12:46 +0200 | From | Ingo Oeser <> | Subject | Re: 2.4 and 2GB swap partition limit |
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On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 11:40:40PM +0100, Hugh Dickins 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.
And we have the one, so we should also implement the other one to be totally unreliable.
*gd&r*
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