There's a non-trivial chance that what now goes wrong with paging (which did once work, even if it isn't great) is a symptom of a bug that afflicts the virtual memory code itself. (For instance, a page unlocked during a critical period, a race, and so on.)
On 2 November 2012 19:18, erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> wrote: > On Fri Nov 2 15:10:00 EDT 2012, skip.tavakkol...@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.klinkov...@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 > >
