Re: dynamic allocation of swap disk space

[Silviu Marin-Caea]

John Bradford wrote:

> > The way I see the solution is: allocate swap space dynamically, until
> > there is no need for more or the disk becomes nearly full.  If that
> > happens, then start thrashing it, all right.  Then when the condition is
> > gone and things are back to normal deallocate the additional swap.
>
>
> Very bad idea in my opinion.

Most likely quite so, I'm not a guru yet :-)

> Over allocating swap space is a BAD practice, but the effects are usually not

How about dynamically allocating up to a certain limit.

Say, you have 256 MB or even less (to save space), and you allocate when 
needed up to 1 GB, then stop allocating, thrash disk, let the kernel 
detect and kill the runaway process.
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