Re: wacky implicit swap idea

Daniel Egger (Daniel.Egger@t-online.de)
Mon, 13 Jul 1998 21:32:56 +0200


On Sun, 12 Jul 1998, John Labovitz wrote:

>i think it might be cool if a linux installation didn't have to
>configure swap space; swap could just grow (or shrink) according to
>the actual disk space in the system. it might be good to mark certain
>disks as `swappable', so that swap would at least start out on fast
>devices.

But then you have to achive that a minimum of memory is always free on
that device otherwise bad things(TM) will happen....

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Servus, Daniel

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