I installed the R1A4 RC (hrevr1alpha4-44576) on my beefy laptop with lots of memory this morning and ran across this bug:
https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/7742 * Installed Haiku to a freshly formatted 8GB partition * Reboot to find 400MB free * Disk usage shows /boot/common/var/swap is 6.9 GB * Machine has a little over 3GB ram... so this makes sense as ram * 2 * Swap preference panel was already disabled. * Erased swap file * Emptied trash * Space still used * Rebooted * Space still used * No swap file present now * Ran checkfs on Haiku partition * No errors reported, but space drops to a correct level.It sounds like swap is double the ram by default... but on these 8-16GB systems, the swap file grows larger then the available free space causing issues.
Would setting ceiling for automatically determined swap of 2GB be a potential fix wanted in the R1A4 (and master) branch?
-- Alex
