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Date:      Sat, 23 Jun 2001 01:55:39 +0930 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com>
Cc:        jhb@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm vm_pageout.c
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20010623015539.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <200106221613.f5MGDGA80305@aldan.algebra.com>

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On 22-Jun-2001 Mikhail Teterin wrote:
>  =Why? Ever needed to USE that particular feature?
>  
>  Yes, on  a number of occasions.  Its un-orthogonal. I can  turn swapping
>  on, but  I can not  turn it off without  rebooting. Yackk. See  also the
>  BUGS sections of swapon(8).

Sure, but I think you'll find FreeBSD development tends to focus on the things
people need rather than think would be nice for asthetic reasons.

I'm not saying it's useless, just less useful than it may first appear.

---
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum

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