Re: [9fans] install "out of physical memory"

["Bruce Ellis" <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>]

i've never had problems with swap.  my setup at the labs was diskless
"terminal" with lotsa ram and swap on /n/other.  it never failed, tho swap
was really only there to cope with extraordinary circumstances.

i have a similar setup in sydney tho "other" is local.

killing a random process is not a solution.  it's an egregious hack.

brucee

On 9/18/06, geoff@plan9.bell-labs.com <geoff@plan9.bell-labs.com> wrote:
> It's not automatic; you need to add something like
>
>        swap /dev/sdC0/swap
>
> to cpurc or cpurc.local.  Others feel that there are serious bugs in
> the swapping (paging) code but I've had good luck with it.
>
> If you expect to swap regularly, you should keep any local file
> systems on different disks from your swap space, or performance will
> suffer badly when you swap.  It's also possible to swap to a file
> server (e.g., `swap /n/other/swap') but you'll want to use switched
> Ethernet if you do that.  If it's possible, it's almost certainly a
> better idea to add more RAM to your machine.
>