:> Secondly, for such a server to fail to run is just as bad as if
:> the system were to run out of swap.
:
:> IRIX has a swap reservation flag too, a left-over from the SysV days.
:> It is a totally useless flag.
:
:That's wrong.
:On such systems, critical server has a chance to save it's data to
:filesystem.
:On 4.4BSD derived systems, it cannot be guaranteed.
:--
:soda
You are assuming that the situation actually occurs. In real life,
it will not occur unless the critical server is running away with
memory.
I have never, ever run one of BEST's servers out of swap. It has never
been an issue.
And, I can only repeat, again, that long before a reasonably configured
FreeBSD system runs out of swap it would become unusable from the I/O
overload.
And you also haven't bothered to address my other point: In order to
configure a system that guarentees backing store, you need to configure
that system with 8x or more swap then you would a normal system. If
you think there was a chance of a normal system running out of swap,
what do you think would happen if you configured a normal system with
8x swap?
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
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