On Thu, 9 Mar 2000 almesber@lrc.di.epfl.ch wrote:
> Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > This [ bug ] is exposed by swapping madly (ultimate test) to a ramdisk.
>
> Is there any case besides testing of startup scripts where swapping to a
> RAM disk accomplishes anything useful ? (Weird NUMA setups ?)
Not that I know of. (but otoh, it's generic..)
> If not, maybe swapon.8 needs a warning, or swapon(8) needs a -f option.
I saw a patch posted here a while back. ;-)
-Mike
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