Re: PATCH: allow percentile size of tmpfs (2.5.66 / 2.4.20-pre2)

Henning P. Schmiedehausen (hps@intermeta.de)
Fri, 4 Apr 2003 11:31:41 +0000 (UTC)

Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> writes:

>On Wed, 2 April 2003 19:33:05 +0200, Christoph Rohland wrote:
>>
>> No, that's why I said you would need hooks into swapon and
>> swapoff. Then it would adjust on the fly. Else it's useless from the
>> usability point of view. With these hooks it's easy to do.

>Can you show me the easy part with this setup?
>256MB RAM
>512MB swap
>50% tmpfs (384MB)
>fill tmpfs completely
>swapoff -a

# swapoff -a
swapoff: device is busy

# umount /tmpfs
# swapoff -a
#

... in an ideal world, of course.

Regards
Henning

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