David Robinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 8 June 1999 09:27:
>hmmmm... From the RAID how-to that would not be a good idea...
I believe it's out of date on this issue.
>I believe you could get into trouble if you start hitting swap (memory gets
>full).
>programs needs extra 1MB of ram...
>kernel doesn't have 1 MB of ram, kernel swaps something out to get 1MB ram.
>RAID drivers see the request to write to the swap partition and setup a 1MB
...
Stephen Tweedie says this is no longer a problem with recent versions
of the kernel. Our server fortunately doesn't do much swapping, but it
uses some, and we never had problems. I can't say it's been stressed
though.
