To be clear, is the swap partition completely useless in Plan9? pmarin.
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Charles Forsyth <charles.fors...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> >
