From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] plan 9 overcommits memory? Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 13:45:26 -0400 From: john@csplan9.rit.edu In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: b61d4cd2-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 >>> Also, it's broken, broken, broken on Plan 9 >> >> but could you describe what antisocial behavior it exhibits and how one >> could reproduce this behavior? i have never used to-disk paging on plan 9, >> so i don't know. >> > > Well, when I used it on an old 32 MB laptop (terminal) and a 64 MB > desktop (cpu server), swap would seem to work all right until you > hit about 30-40% usage. This was the case with both systems; when > I asked about it, a couple other people mentioned the same behavior. > The thing is, it's pretty hard to test swap under normal usage; the only > time I ran into this problem was while compiling a new kernel. > I forgot to write what happened when swap broke--like Nemo, I found that the machine would lock solid, requiring a reboot. John