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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Sat,  3 Nov 2012 02:56:58 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Kernel panic when allocating a huge memory
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On Sat Nov  3 02:54:52 EDT 2012, steve@quintile.net wrote:
> if you use the 9front distribution swap works,
> if you use the either 9atom or the labs distribution it does not.
>
> the labs or erik may take the fixes from 9front but there are good reasons
> for dropping swap all together - it is very slow, rarely used,
> and ram is cheap these days.
>
> i think this is a fair summary.

yup.

9atom is dropping swap since the current setup conflicts
with multiple page sizes, and i haven't run swap on any
machine for 10 years.

- erik