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From: Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>
To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: options NO_SWAPPING, still wants swap
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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