From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@9fans.net Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 13:33:49 +0000 From: Pavel Klinkovsky Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 References: <3816729a-a9d5-4f63-9850-c7247edae37e@c16g2000yqe.googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] Kernel panic when allocating a huge memory Topicbox-Message-UUID: d377c992-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > there are good reasons for dropping swap all together - > it is very slow, rarely used, and ram is cheap these days. It seems true. But in my case, it is easier, faster and cheaper to reinstall Plan 9 with larger (if working) swap partition than increase the RAM size. However it is just a theory since official Plan 9 does not have a working swap... Pavel