Re: 2.4 and 2GB swap partition limit

Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Mon, 5 Mar 2001 11:30:14 -0300 (BRST)


On 5 Mar 2001, Christoph Rohland wrote:

> BTW often these big servers run databases and application servers
> which have most of their memory in shared memory. Shared memory does
> free the swap entries on swapin. (I thought about changing that but as
> long as we have no garbage collection for idle swap entries I will not
> do it)

It's on my infinite TODO list ;)

Rik

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