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Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 23:08:57 +0200 (CEST)
From: Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>
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Subject: options NO_SWAPPING, still wants swap
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I compiled a kernel with "options NO_SWAPPING", yet CURRENT still
attempts to allocate swap space:
Apr 10 22:29:33 pakastelohi kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed

As a result, everything from make to cp to httpd (on a server with no load
other than random search engine visits) sometimes fails. The machine has
1GB of RAM, all seen by FreeBSD. Since I ran the same processes on a
machine with 128MB of RAM and 256MB of swap without ever running out of
memory, something seems broken with FreeBSD's use of memory when options
NO_SWAPPING is chosen.

Thanks,
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