Re: An idea for swap partition size vs. swap space size in use handling

2023-02-25 Thread Mark Millard
On Feb 25, 2023, at 21:00, Mark Millard wrote: > On Feb 25, 2023, at 20:01, Jamie Landeg-Jones wrote: > >> Mark Millard wrote: >> >>> On Jan 21, 2023, at 23:17, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Last I looked at that code, that is precisely what happens if you add a too big

Re: An idea for swap partition size vs. swap space size in use handling

2023-02-25 Thread Mark Millard
On Feb 25, 2023, at 20:01, Jamie Landeg-Jones wrote: > Mark Millard wrote: > >> On Jan 21, 2023, at 23:17, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >>> >>> Last I looked at that code, that is precisely what happens >>> if you add a too big swap-device ? >> >> It produces a notice reporting how much bigger

Re: An idea for swap partition size vs. swap space size in use handling

2023-02-25 Thread Jamie Landeg-Jones
Mark Millard wrote: > On Jan 21, 2023, at 23:17, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > > > Last I looked at that code, that is precisely what happens > > if you add a too big swap-device ? > > It produces a notice reporting how much bigger what it is > using is than what is recommended, if I understand

Re: An idea for swap partition size vs. swap space size in use handling

2023-01-22 Thread Mark Millard
On Jan 22, 2023, at 09:46, Mark Millard wrote: > >> On Jan 22, 2023, at 05:15, Mike Karels wrote: >> >>> On 22 Jan 2023, at 2:42, Mark Millard wrote: >>> On Jan 22, 2023, at 00:21, Mark Millard wrote: > On Jan 21, 2023, at 23:17, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >>

Re: An idea for swap partition size vs. swap space size in use handling

2023-01-22 Thread Mark Millard
On Jan 22, 2023, at 06:11, Ronald Klop wrote: > > > Van: Mark Millard > Datum: zondag, 22 januari 2023 05:41 > Aan: freebsd-current > Onderwerp: An idea for swap partition size vs. swap space size in use handling > I have boot media that are each set up to boot a

Re: An idea for swap partition size vs. swap space size in use handling

2023-01-22 Thread Mark Millard
On Jan 22, 2023, at 05:15, Mike Karels wrote: > On 22 Jan 2023, at 2:42, Mark Millard wrote: > >> On Jan 22, 2023, at 00:21, Mark Millard wrote: >> >>> On Jan 21, 2023, at 23:17, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >>> Mark Millard writes: > It would be nice if I could

Re: An idea for swap partition size vs. swap space size in use handling

2023-01-22 Thread Ronald Klop
Van: Mark Millard Datum: zondag, 22 januari 2023 05:41 Aan: freebsd-current Onderwerp: An idea for swap partition size vs. swap space size in use handling I have boot media that are each set up to boot a variety of systems that have widely different RAM sizes, from 1 GiBytes to 64 GiBytes

Re: An idea for swap partition size vs. swap space size in use handling

2023-01-22 Thread Mike Karels
On 22 Jan 2023, at 2:42, Mark Millard wrote: > On Jan 22, 2023, at 00:21, Mark Millard wrote: > >> On Jan 21, 2023, at 23:17, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> >>> >>> Mark Millard writes: >>> It would be nice if I could have just one swap partition on a given boot media, one that

Re: An idea for swap partition size vs. swap space size in use handling

2023-01-22 Thread Mark Millard
On Jan 22, 2023, at 00:21, Mark Millard wrote: > On Jan 21, 2023, at 23:17, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> >> Mark Millard writes: >> >>> It would be nice if I could have just one swap partition >>> on a given boot media, one that is more than sufficient >>> in size for all but the

Re: An idea for swap partition size vs. swap space size in use handling

2023-01-22 Thread Mark Millard
On Jan 21, 2023, at 23:17, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > Mark Millard writes: > >> It would be nice if I could have just one swap partition >> on a given boot media, one that is more than sufficient >> in size for all but the biggest RAM system --but to then >> be able to tell the

Re: An idea for swap partition size vs. swap space size in use handling

2023-01-21 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
Mark Millard writes: > It would be nice if I could have just one swap partition > on a given boot media, one that is more than sufficient > in size for all but the biggest RAM system --but to then > be able to tell the system to just use up to the > recommended swap space size and to

An idea for swap partition size vs. swap space size in use handling

2023-01-21 Thread Mark Millard
I have boot media that are each set up to boot a variety of systems that have widely different RAM sizes, from 1 GiBytes to 64 GiBytes for the aarch64 examples of this. This has lead to having multiple swap partitions of various sizes so that I can have total swap spaces that are somewhat under