Re: [XEN] using shmfs for swapspace

[Joseph Fannin]

On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 04:26:52PM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
[...] 
> this is presumed to be infinitely better than forcing the swapspace to
> be always on disk, especially with the guests only being allocated
> 32mbyte of physical RAM.

    I'd be interested in knowing how a tmpfs that's gone far into swap
performs compared to a more normal on-disk fs.  I don't know if anyone
has ever looked into it.  Is it comparable, or is tmpfs's ability to
swap more a last-resort escape hatch?

    This is the part where I would add something valuable to this
conversation, if I were going to do that. (But no.)
-- 
Joseph Fannin
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