On Tue, 1 Jul 2008, Miles Nordin wrote: > > I don't think it's overrated at all. People all around me are using > this dynamic_pager right now, and they just reboot when they see too > many pinwheels. If they are ``quite happy,'' it's not with their > pager.
While we have seen these "pinwheels" under OS-X, the cause seems to be usually application lockup (due to poor application/library design) and not due to paging to death. Paging to death causes lots of obvious disk churn. Microsoft Windows includes a dynamic page file as well. It is wrong to confuse total required paging space with thrashing. These are completely different issues. Dynamic sizing of paging space seems to fit well with the new zfs root/boot strategy where everything is shared via a common pool. If you don't use it, you don't lose it. System resource limits can be used to block individual applications from consuming all resources. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
