Re: [9fans] plan 9 overcommits memory?

[Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>]

This has been discussed before, but given how hard it is to debug
this, and that nobody seems to have enough interest/motivation to do
so, wouldn't it make more sense to totally remove swap support? I
really can't understand why things like il are removed when they
actually work, and swap is left alone, when it is actually broken.

The current swap just frustrates people who expect it to work, and
then have their systems freeze randomly. Maybe by disabling/remove
swap support, then if someone really needs swap he will fix it first
and then we can add it back.

Best wishes

uriel

On 9/3/07, Gorka Guardiola <paurea@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/3/07, john@csplan9.rit.edu <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
> >
>
> Isn´t it more like John "wants somebody else to fix his swap instead 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...
>
> --
> - curiosity sKilled the cat
>