Re: 2.4 and 2GB swap partition limit

[Hugh Dickins]

On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, LA Walsh wrote:
> 
> >     An interesting option (though with less-than-stellar performance
> > characteristics) would be a dynamically expanding swapfile.  If you're
> > going to be hit with swap penalties, it may be useful to not have to
> > pre-reserve something you only hit once in a great while.
> 
> This makes amazingly little sense since you'd still need to
> pre-reserve the disk space the swapfile grows into.

It makes roughly the same sense as over-committing memory.
Both are useful, both are unreliable.

Hugh