From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <2fc8bf6f330b9a86ddb0f076ceb0cc9a@csplan9.rit.edu> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] plan 9 overcommits memory? Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 13:30:31 -0400 From: john@csplan9.rit.edu In-Reply-To: <599f06db0709031017g5ea2f3eeu48687c54499074c6@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: b571c07e-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > On 9/3/07, john@csplan9.rit.edu wrote: >> >> Also, it's broken, broken, broken on Plan 9 and nobody wants to fix it= . >> The upside to this is that we can just say how we don't want it anyway= , >> there's no conceivable reason anyone would want swap, and operating >> systems with working swap suck ;) >> >> >> John "Has a Swap Partition and Doesn't Know Why" Floren >> >=20 > Isn=C2=B4t it more like John "wants somebody else to fix his swap inste= ad of doing > himself" Floren?. If you think something is broken, fix it instead of > complaining. > If noone else likes it, at least you have your problem solved... >=20 I don't actually need the swap partition, it's just there... ummm... not sure why; I installed on this machine before I found out that swap is=20 broken. And it's not that I *think* swap is broken; it's been confirmed=20 by others. If I ever dig up a really old laptop with 32 MB of RAM or something, it could be worth it to try fixing swap, but since that itch doesn't exist I'm not going to scratch it. John