Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:18:24 +0100 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com> Cc: invalid.pointer@gmail.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: The question of moving vi to /bin Message-ID: <20090625001824.1d580de8@gluon.draftnet> In-Reply-To: <d873d5be0906240613s1050323bpdd28aaedddf2cb9d@mail.gmail.com> References: <d873d5be0906240613s1050323bpdd28aaedddf2cb9d@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:13:49 -0700 "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com> wrote: > ??? Who is giving them that credit? This isn't new. You already have > some control over swapping via several oids: > > vm.swap_enabled > vm.disable_swapspace_pageouts > vm.defer_swapspace_pageouts > vm.swap_idle_enabled > vm.swap_idle_threshold1 > vm.swap_idle_threshold2 > etc. > > See, for example, tuning(7). These have been around for ages (well, > at least since June 1996). You can also build your kernel with: > > options NO_SWAPPING > > which takes precedence over these settings. That option has been > around even longer. Linux has corresponding features, although they > didn't always work well on older kernels. It looks like the best explanation of NO_SWAPPING is http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1067315+0+archive/2003/freebsd-current/20030413.freebsd-current I found it after attempting to trim a powerpc kernel to see just how much I could leave out - it looks like it's not possible to leave out support for swapping. -- Bruce Cran
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