Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Sep 2004 10:35:54 -0300 | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] oom_pardon, aka don't kill my xlock |
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On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 02:12:26PM +0100, Jon Masters wrote: > Hi all, > > Just out of interest then...suppose we've got a loopback swap device > and that we can extend this by creating a new file or extending > somehow the existing one. > > What would be wrong with having the page reclaim algorithms use one of > the low memory watermarks as a trigger to call in to userspace to > extend the swap available if possible? This is probably what Microsoft > et al do with their "Windows is extending your virtual memory, yada > yada blah blah". Comments? Already done?
You dont to change kernel code for that - make a script to monitor swap usage, as soon as it gets below a given watermark, you swapon whatever swapfile you want.
Makes sense yes.
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