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Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 10:54:38 +0100 From: Ian Stirling <ian.stirling@...ve.plus.com> To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Per-user swap devices. I have a laptop. It does not have enough RAM. Due to the fact that the local hard disk is quite slow seeking - I've experimented with swap over wifi to a servers ramdisk - which lets me run more stuff till it slows down. This works very well until there is a wifi problem - at which time everything dies. While there are partial 'solutions' in some cases - lock stuff in RAM, ... I was wondering about a more general solution. It would be really nice to be able to simply: chown crashalot.users /dev/swap0 ;swapon /dev/swap0 Then anything run by crashalot would swap to /dev/swap0 - and not locally. If it crashes, then firefox/whatever else bloated that they were running simply dies. I assume this is not currently possible. How much work would it be to get it to be so? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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