On 2 November 2012 19:18, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:

On Fri Nov 2 15:10:00 EDT 2012, skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com wrote:
> it's by design:
> http://9fans.net/archive/2006/07/229
>
> -Skip
>
> On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Pavel Klinkovsky
> <pavel.klinkovsky@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> It really seems as a problem with swap. :(
> >>
> >> this is well known, and solutions are available
> >> even if you don't care to use them.
> >
> > Oh, does it mean the official Plan 9 distribution contains non-working swap? :O
> > It is clear I missed something...
> >
> > Sorry for the noise.

i don't think that's quite fair to the current situation. there
was a swapper, and it's broken. it should either be fixed or
removed. leaving the thing in in the state it's in (buffalo
buffalo?) doesn't make any sense, and is as seperate from
the question of whether to page (to disk) or not as, ahem, vm is from
paging (to disk).

imo, swap needs to go.

- erik