On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 10:59:46PM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: > 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.
I forgot that in BSD swap wouldn't be allocated in advance to its consumers. Then removing the -M flag and making swap backing the default is a very sound choice. Thank you for correcting me. -- Yar _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
