From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 29 5:13:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 937CF37B407 for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2001 05:13:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f8TCDni80890; Sat, 29 Sep 2001 14:13:49 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 14:13:49 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Vladimir Dozen , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VM: dynamic swap remapping (patch) Message-ID: <20010929141349.A80876@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20010929155941.A291@eix.do-labs.spb.ru> <20010929071024.Q59854@elvis.mu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010929071024.Q59854@elvis.mu.org>; from bright@mu.org on Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 07:10:24AM -0500 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 07:10:24AM -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Vladimir Dozen [010929 06:57] wrote: > > ehlo. > > > > (Sorry for long pre-history, I believe it is necessary.) > [snip] > > Comments? > > Wow! This is really awesome work you've done, perhaps you can put > the patch up on a URL someplace? If not mail it to me in private > and I can put it up for people to see. One thing though, I think > that this behaviour should be toggled via a sysctl, but I think I > can manage doing that for you. > > One other question, why not just set an option to make FreeBSD not > overcommit? I've always wanted the ability to turn off overcommit > for exactly the same reasons you do. FWIW: Tru64 has had this capability since day one. You can select swap-overcommit mode by removing a symlink (/sbin/swapdefault -> /dev/foob) were /dev/foob is the primary swap partition. W/ -- | / o / /_ _ email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message