[haiku-development] Re: R1A4 RC swap issue - ram * 2
- From: scottmc <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 00:17:46 -0700
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 12:14 PM, kallisti5 <kallisti5@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> I see two solutions here:
>>
>> * Is there a swap setting?
>> * Use it.
>> * Is there no swap setting defined?
>> * Don't set use a swap file.
>
> I don't think we need to do that, we just need to be smarter about
> coming up with the size, and then write that to the settings file.
>
>> * Is there a swap setting?
>> * Use it.
>> * Is there no swap setting defined?
>> * Do ram * 2.
>> * Is ram * 2 over 1GB? only try a 1GB swap file.
>
> It also needs to take into account the size of the disk and the
> available space on the disk.
>
> I commented in that ticket with all the fixes I think are needed.
> There are several other related bugs. If we start fixing this one we
> should just fix them all.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Ryan
>
i would say that this issue should almost be raised to an r1alpha4
blocker. Whilst trying to rebuild the OptionalPackages in a VM I am
watching the 8GB images I am using quickly fill up. Then I do a disk
usage scan and find /boot/common/var is using 6GB of it! This is
really annoying.
-scottmc
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