Re: Static Swap

Nick Holloway (Nick.Holloway@alfie.demon.co.uk)
14 Apr 1999 08:23:17 +0100

linker@z.ml.org (Gregory Maxwell) writes:
> You need to make a daemon which calls the approiate systems calls to
> determin free swap and automaticly makes on disk swapfiles in 5-50meg
> chuncks.. It should do everything by itself (no calling external programs)
> and it should be mlocked and small..

...and it already exists.

I wrote swapd many years ago (first started in 1993), as this question
comes up periodically. The only bit missing is mlock.

I don't use it, but the current version I have is 1.4, available from:

http://www.alfie.demon.co.uk/download/swapd-1.4.tar.gz

I am not actually maintaining it currently, I handed over the reins to
Marc Merlin. I don't have a URL to hand for his work.

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