From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <775b8d190609171410q4dacb30bm2ed211fcf87c821b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 07:10:50 +1000 From: "Bruce Ellis" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] install "out of physical memory" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <7d3530220609171340m1b6b156erd138325867d4b2b7@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: b934c504-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 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. >