Re: [Gc-linux-devel] Alive?

[Shaun J. <sja...@gm...>]

2005/11/4, 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 anythi=
ng
> 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 memo=
ry,
> I'm out of memory.

Reread my reply; it was in reference to using a NBD swap device, not
setting the swap priority.

> So I presume the image provided does *not* use uclibc.  I have to get a
> Linux system going to build stuff on first, then I'll work on getting a
> uclibc-based image.
>
> Thanks for the pointers!

No problem! Good luck and cheers,
Shaun