Re: zswap missing?

2016-03-11 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Mar 11, 2016 15:19, "Nix, Robert P." wrote: > > I have to agree with Mark. From the beginning, the goal was to keep Linux > from swapping, and allow zVM to page if necessary. There¹s no sense in two > different layers virtualizing memory. If you¹re pushing into swap, >

Re: zswap missing?

2016-03-11 Thread Nix, Robert P.
I have to agree with Mark. From the beginning, the goal was to keep Linux from swapping, and allow zVM to page if necessary. There¹s no sense in two different layers virtualizing memory. If you¹re pushing into swap, consider making the virtual machine bigger. zVM can easily handle a 2:1

Re: zswap missing?

2016-03-10 Thread Harley Linker
[mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Christer Solskogen Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2016 6:21 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: zswap missing? Hi! Isn't zswap available for s390x? I can't find anything on either SLES11 or SLES12. -- chs

Re: zswap missing?

2016-03-10 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 3/10/2016 at 01:25 PM, Christer Solskogen wrote: > This is a bit more technical: https://lwn.net/Articles/537422/ Based on the lead-in to the article, this was intended for systems where CPU and RAM are cheap, and I/O is very expensive. For the mainframe,

Re: zswap missing?

2016-03-10 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 6:27 PM, wrote: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zswap > > Seems like this is experimental This is a bit more technical: https://lwn.net/Articles/537422/ I wouldn't say experimental anymore, since it's been in the kernel since 3.7. The reason I'm

Re: zswap missing?

2016-03-10 Thread KarlKingston
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zswap Seems like this is experimental From: Mark Post <mp...@suse.com> To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 03/10/2016 12:11 PM Subject: Re: zswap missing? Sent by:Linux on 390 Port <LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU> >>> On

Re: zswap missing?

2016-03-10 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 3/10/2016 at 07:21 AM, Christer Solskogen wrote: > Hi! > > Isn't zswap available for s390x? I can't find anything on either > SLES11 or SLES12. I've never heard of it, so I suppose not. What is it? Mark Post

zswap missing?

2016-03-10 Thread Christer Solskogen
Hi! Isn't zswap available for s390x? I can't find anything on either SLES11 or SLES12. -- chs -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO