At 11:07 Uhr +0200 19.04.2004, Michael Schmitz wrote:
mol will work, and the key to avoiding swap collision is swap priorities (as I've explained before). pmdisk uses the first swap partition, so you need to make sure the second swap partition has the higher priority.
Ok, but I guess if the sum of all RSS space (or at least the stacks and heaps) of all processes is bigger than the first swap partition, it will fail?
(Well maybe LVM would work?, this would help me merge the two swap partitions in that case.)
Re: mol - which version do you have working with 2.6 kernels?
0.9.70-rc2 (I'm not sure anymore where I did get it from, I think it was a development version when I got it a few months ago, I have it in a 'mol-rsync' directory). Works very well except that it takes up more CPU than older versions with kernel 2.4 (at least 10% even when macos is idle); I did set HZ to 100 instead of 1000 in kernel 2.6.3 which helped against this; forget to do this for 2.6.5 now. (BTW kernels 2.6 are less responsive on this laptop than 2.4 was, and there's a strange slowness in line-buffered output to gnome-terminals, do you see this too?)
Christian.