Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 21:42:42 +0200 (CEST) From: Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: options NO_SWAPPING, still wants swap Message-ID: <20030412213940.O6477@pakastelohi.cypherpunks.to> In-Reply-To: <20030411182925.A3507@gamplex.bde.org> References: <20030410230113.M81717@pakastelohi.cypherpunks.to> <20030411182925.A3507@gamplex.bde.org>
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On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Bruce Evans wrote: > On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Lucky Green wrote: > > > I compiled a kernel with "options NO_SWAPPING", yet CURRENT still > > attempts to allocate swap space: > > NO_SWAPPING has nothing to do with not allocating swap space. It prevents > swapping of upages and stack pages only. > > Unfortunately, NOTES' description of NO_SWAPPING says that it disables > swapping without explaining what swapping is (it is just swapping of > upages and stack, and has nothing to do with generic VM paging). > NO_SWAPPING is documented mainlly in the commitlog for the change that > added it: Perhaps a kind comitter could modify NOTES to help make users aware that NO_SWAPPING does not disable swapping of memory to disk and to look to man rc.conf for information about the latter? Thanks, --Lucky
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