Re: RAM swap

2006-02-16 Thread Michael Ben-Nes
Tzahi Fadida wrote: Note that postgreSQL has a local swap of itself for doing big sorts etc... However, I have a feeling its more to do with how much time it takes for your transaction to finish. There is an automatic mechanism in postgreSQL that drops the connection if it thinks the

procfs backwards compatibility

2006-02-16 Thread Oren Held
Hi, I've got an old software (LSF v4.1) which doesn't seem to be kernel 2.6 friendly: It dies with SIGSEGV while trying to find the page line in /proc/stat, which exists no more in kernel 2.6. It works very well on 2.4, and unfortunately I cannot upgrade the LSF version (not free software..)

Re: procfs backwards compatibility

2006-02-16 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 09:53:29PM +0200, Oren Held wrote: It works very well on 2.4, and unfortunately I cannot upgrade the LSF version (not free software..) I believe this incompatibility issue comes up with other pieces of code as well. Any more-or-less standard way to put procfs into