Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964956AbWAWUoH (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jan 2006 15:44:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964952AbWAWUnw (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jan 2006 15:43:52 -0500 Received: from free.wgops.com ([69.51.116.66]:41743 "EHLO shell.wgops.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964941AbWAWUnV (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jan 2006 15:43:21 -0500 Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 13:43:00 -0700 From: Michael Loftis To: Ram Gupta Cc: "Barry K. Nathan" , Al Boldi , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] VM: I have a dream... Message-ID: <280A351A008C409CEF43A734@dhcp-2-206.wgops.com> In-Reply-To: <728201270601230705k25e6890ejd716dbfc393208b8@mail.gmail.com> References: <200601212108.41269.a1426z@gawab.com> <986ed62e0601221155x6a57e353vf14db02cc219c09@mail.gmail.com> <728201270601230705k25e6890ejd716dbfc393208b8@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: 1032 Lines: 25 --On January 23, 2006 9:05:41 AM -0600 Ram Gupta wrote: > > 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. You missed the point. The kernel in OS X maintains creation and use of these files automatically. The point wasn't oh wow multiple files' it was that it creates them on the fly. I just posted back with the apparent new method that's being used. I'm not sure if the 512MB number continues or if the next file will be 1Gb or another 512M. Or of memory size affects it or not. I'm sure developer.apple.com or apple darwin pages have the information somewhere. - 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/