Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964798AbWAWFYA (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jan 2006 00:24:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932422AbWAWFYA (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jan 2006 00:24:00 -0500 Received: from free.wgops.com ([69.51.116.66]:32271 "EHLO shell.wgops.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932411AbWAWFX7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jan 2006 00:23:59 -0500 Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 22:23:43 -0700 From: Michael Loftis To: "Barry K. Nathan" , Al Boldi Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] VM: I have a dream... Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <986ed62e0601221155x6a57e353vf14db02cc219c09@mail.gmail.com> References: <200601212108.41269.a1426z@gawab.com> <986ed62e0601221155x6a57e353vf14db02cc219c09@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.4 (Mac OS X) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@wgops.com X-MailScanner: WGOPS clean X-MailScanner-From: mloftis@wgops.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1064 Lines: 30 --On January 22, 2006 11:55:37 AM -0800 "Barry K. Nathan" wrote: > On 1/21/06, Al Boldi wrote: >> A long time ago, when i was a kid, I had dream. It went like this: > [snip] > > FWIW, Mac OS X is one step closer to your vision than the typical > Linux distribution: It has a directory for swapfiles -- /var/vm -- and > it creates new swapfiles there as needed. (It used to be that each > swapfile would be 80MB, but the iMac next to me just has a single 64MB > swapfile, so maybe Mac OS 10.4 does something different now.) /var/vm/swap* 64M swapfile0 64M swapfile1 128M swapfile2 256M swapfile3 512M swapfile4 512M swapfile5 1.5G total However only the first 5 are in use. the 6th just represents the peak swap usage on this machine. This is on 10.4. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/