From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 15:18:27 -0400 To: skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com, 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: <3816729a-a9d5-4f63-9850-c7247edae37e@c16g2000yqe.googlegroups.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Kernel panic when allocating a huge memory Topicbox-Message-UUID: d06d2a6c-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 > 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