On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 06:16:53PM +0400, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > KK> > > > Use should be as easy as: > KK> > > > > KK> > > > mdconfig_md0="-t malloc -s 10m" > KK> > > KK> > We should consider adding "-o reserve" to malloc-backed md creation > KK> > where applicable (e.g. the md-backed /tmp creation) to avoid bogus PRs > KK> > from people who run their kernels out of memory by filling up /tmp. > KK> > KK> Oops, I forgot they were already (correctly) fixed to use swap backing > KK> (I think). > > Not yet, the default is still -M. I had a patch for this, based on > vm.nswapdev > value, to use malloc-backed md only on swapless machines:
What was the hold-up with committing it? :) Kris
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