Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 14:01:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> To: The Devil Himself <fullermd@narcissus.ml.org> Cc: dkelly@HiWAAY.net, Troy Settle <rewt@i-Plus.net>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com> Subject: Re: What swap for 1Gb memory? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.94.970510135851.9897A-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.970510112626.23154B-100000@narcissus.ml.org>
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On Sat, 10 May 1997, The Devil Himself wrote: ... > RAM, because if the kernel panics, it dumps a complete image of memory > into the swap space, to be recovered on reboot for examination, and it can > do bad thigs if there's not enough swap. > How bad, I don't know, but I don't think I'd want to find out... It would continue to write beyond the end of swap, possibly wiping out file systems located after the swap space! I believe this bug was fixed long, long ago in almost every BSD system. > > -- > > David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net > > ===================================================================== > > The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its > > capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. > > *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* > |FreeBSD is good. FreeBSD is our friend. UNIX is our god.| > *Micro$oft is bad. Micro$oft causes problems.* > |MicroBSD??? I DON'T THINK SO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!| > |"I hate quotes in signature files" :-} MAtthew Fuller| > *fullermd@narcissus.ml.org FreeBSD junkie* > |http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd Westminster College| > *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* > > > Tom
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