Re: 128MB Swap-Space Limit

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 11 Aug 1998 18:17:46 +0100 (BST)


> count overflows. The count is reclaimed when the swap is turned off for that file,
> and the clever sysadmin has several swap files so that he can easily reclaim at
> any time.

Turning your swap off regularly isnt a fix if you are really honest about it.
Its good recovery code but not a real fix

> It was a horrible vm bug before I added the code to keep the counts from wrapping
> around completely; now it's merely an unsightly wart that might show up from time
> to time.

Running big apache servers and sendmail list relays it happens about every
5 to 10 minutes on big end hardware.

Alan

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