>>> Also, it's broken, broken, broken on Plan 9 >> >> but could you describe what antisocial behavior it exhibits and how one >> could reproduce this behavior? i have never used to-disk paging on plan 9, >> so i don't know. >> > > Well, when I used it on an old 32 MB laptop (terminal) and a 64 MB > desktop (cpu server), swap would seem to work all right until you > hit about 30-40% usage. This was the case with both systems; when > I asked about it, a couple other people mentioned the same behavior. > The thing is, it's pretty hard to test swap under normal usage; the only > time I ran into this problem was while compiling a new kernel. >
I forgot to write what happened when swap broke--like Nemo, I found that the machine would lock solid, requiring a reboot. John
