Re: [RFC] VM: I have a dream...

From: Diego Calleja
Date: Mon Jan 23 2006 - 10:25:16 EST


El Mon, 23 Jan 2006 09:05:41 -0600,
Ram Gupta <ram.gupta5@xxxxxxxxx> escribió:

> Linux also supports multiple swap files . But these are more

There're in fact a "dynamic swap" tool which apparently
does what mac os x do: http://dynswapd.sourceforge.net/

However, I doubt the approach is really useful. If you need that much
swap space, you're going well beyond the capabilities of the machine.
In fact, I bet that most of the cases of machines needing too much
memory will be because of bugs in the programs and OOM'ing would be
a better solution.
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