Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751462AbWAWPFp (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:05:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751464AbWAWPFp (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:05:45 -0500 Received: from uproxy.gmail.com ([66.249.92.194]:6431 "EHLO uproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751459AbWAWPFo convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:05:44 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=OBSyTB9VZ81bjJahW5TAh9eRkN3eoiCWbti+yhQFq7qAJkFaVOCW9a3CI+sAjmTtMoR3MRVf12y9/HiWwqSRj0ipDkKC3abU+WLY94vLYwtfQAtyqdrm8d06EkkyF4fd2s0+dmUoIygnBIbHiBtb2Q6tBhA4yT8HNZDffZTOmvI= Message-ID: <728201270601230705k25e6890ejd716dbfc393208b8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 09:05:41 -0600 From: Ram Gupta To: Michael Loftis Subject: Re: [RFC] VM: I have a dream... Cc: "Barry K. Nathan" , Al Boldi , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <200601212108.41269.a1426z@gawab.com> <986ed62e0601221155x6a57e353vf14db02cc219c09@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1056 Lines: 29 On 1/22/06, Michael Loftis wrote: > > > 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 > Linux also supports multiple swap files . But these are more beneficial if there are more than one disk in the system so that i/o can be done in parallel. These swap files may be activated at run time based on some criteria. Regards Ram Gupta - 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/