On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Antti Kantee wrote:

# I was playing around with swapctl -d and running out of memory. Both
# work fine, unless I try to swapctl -d my swap away and don't have enough
# memory left for all the applications running. The box froze, but only
# from a userland pov, the kernel still responded to pings.
# 
# Should doing swapctl -d for a non-empty swap device work at all?

If it doesn't work, there's no point in having it because
"there are no empty swap devices".

I thinnk if you swapctl -d, it ought to evaluate needed vs. available
(post-swapctl-minus-d) and issue an error (or at least forceable warning)
if you try to deallocate swap beyond what is necessary.


				--*greywolf;
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