From owner-cvs-all Fri Jun 22 9:26: 5 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 563EA37B408; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 09:25:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (root@spare0.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.114]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA28254; Sat, 23 Jun 2001 01:55:42 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.7 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200106221613.f5MGDGA80305@aldan.algebra.com> Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 01:55:39 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Mikhail Teterin Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm vm_pageout.c Cc: jhb@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message