[User-mode-linux-devel] Actual use of swap?

[William S. <wst...@po...>]

Good afternoon, Jeff,
	It's not clear whether the swap is actually working or not in
2.3.51-uml:
dd if=/dev/zero of=uml-swap1 bs=1M count=4
mkswap -c uml-swap1
./linux-2.3.51 fhd1=uml-swap1
swapon /dev/disk/1

	Then start filling up ram with bash's.  Around 312K free, the
xterm with the bashs and the xterm with top freeze, but the console still
accepts keystrokes:

usermode:~#
usermode:~# ps axf | less
Kernel panic: No vma in segv

	The most recently executed bash, by the way, appears to be the one
chewing up 99% CPU.
	I sincerely hope these reports are repeatable as I really have few
skills in gdb.
	Cheers,
	- Bill

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