Quoting "Mike A. Harris" <mharris@meteng.on.ca>:
> On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, David Bronaugh wrote:
>
> >When talking about slow mem leaks and such, I agree with Mike
> >A. Harris. There should be a userland daemon to track free
> >memory and, if it falls below a critical level, add more swap.
>
> This solution however, is a userland issue - a potentially useful
> application (daemon), not really a kernel solution. I think it
> will be a decent solution to my problem though.
I guess most people know this but there are already several 'swapd' programs out
there. Just do a search on freshmeat or Google. I've never used any, but they
seem to have the basic functionality to create and remove swap files on demand.
Later,
Tom
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