Louis Mandelstam wrote:
>
> On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, M.H.VanLeeuwen wrote:
>
> > #swapoff -a
> > #dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1k count=10000
> > #mkswap swapfile
> > #losetup /dev/loop3 swapfile
> > #swapon /dev/loop3
> > #free
> > total used free shared buffers cached
> > Mem: 144044 141608 2436 120948 31968 29496
> > -/+ buffers/cache: 80144 63900
> > Swap: 9996 0 9996
>
> Try actually using this swap space - cause pages to be swapped out, and
> back in. Doing this caused a panic when I tried.
>
Yup, just tried it, all processes accessing swapped out pages hang in the D-state,
no panic though, Ctrl ScrLk & Shift ScrLk still work. So close yet so far...
Later
Martin
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