Re: [Gc-linux-devel] Alive?

[daniel t. <da...@re...>]

Quoting Damian Gerow <dg...@af...>:
> Thus spake Shaun Jackman (sja...@gm...) [04/11/05 09:58]:
> : > Hrm..  I've never heard of that.  I'll give it a shot, though I doubt it
> : > will help me out much.
> : 
> : Well, it will prevent the out-of-memory killer from slaying your
> : processes. Whether the performance is sufficient for your needs is
> : another matter, but I suspect you'll be pleased.
> 
> Uh...  How will setting the priority on my only swap device change anything
> from the current configuration?  I'm already using it as swap; I don't
> understand how setting its priority will help me out.  If I'm out of memory,
> I'm out of memory.

Setting the priority of your only swap device will not alter anything. However 
if you configure swap to a network block device it will help preserve 
performance by prefering to store pages in ARAM rather than via the network.

I use both on my GC and the only time I really see NBD being used is either 
during compiling (which takes for ever - much better to cross compile!) or 
using apt-get.

I added a few notes to the wiki regarding NBD but have not finished it. It 
tells you how to set up the GC but not how to set up the NBD server. Since I 
haven't quite figured how the wiki is currently laid out I created a new 
node 'Documentation' and linked to my new material from there. This made a lot 
more sense to me than the current 'How to develop/run' node which contains 
links to pretty much all the actual (software) documentation (but I only 
realised this after adding my material.

-- 
Daniel Thompson (Merlin) <da...@re...>

If at first you don't succeed then sky diving is probably not for you.