On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 10:59:46AM +0300, Yar Tikhiy wrote: > On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 04:03:30PM -0500, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > > On Tuesday 27 February 2007 15:53, Alex Kozlov wrote: > > = > Yes, I switched to swap-backed md already. But the malloc-based variety > > is > > = > currently the _default_ (see /etc/defaults/rc.conf)... > > = Bad default. > > > > Filing a PR. > > Keep in mind that changing the default can break existing setups. > Such setups are likely to be broken anyway, but... E.g., if we > drop the -M flag, it will break systems with tons of RAM but little > swap using tmpmfs.
How will it break them? swap backing only touches swap if there is memory pressure, i.e. precisely the situation in which malloc backing will panic. Kris
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